Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

Alexis was the 2020-2021 National Humanities Center Fellow, funded by the Founders Award, and is the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

Her recent work, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, was awarded the Zora, formerly the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction and the Judy Grahn Prize in Lesbian Nonfiction by Publishing Triangle.

It was also named the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2024, a Time magazine Must Read book, and was a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library's Book Prize and the LA Times Book Prize.

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His screenwriting credits on The Fall of the House of Usher by Netflix and Manhunt on Apple.

Johnson is the recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the John dos Passos Prize for Literature, and the American Book Award.

That is legit, [laughs] I have to say.

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