Ebony Flowers
Assistant Professor
Contact
- Office: C1AB Tribble Hall
- Phone: (336) 758-3268
- Email: ebonyflowers@wfu.edu
Degrees
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- BA, University of Maryland College Park
Ebony’s fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, MOMA magazine, and The Paris Review. She is a 2017 Rona Jaffe Award recipient, a 2020 Ignatz Award recipient for Outstanding Graphic Novel, a 2020 Believer Award recipient for Fiction, and a 2020 Eisner Award recipient for Best Short Story. Ebony was also nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Literacy (Young Adult Fiction) and was a Mary I. Bunting Fellow for fiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2022-23 academic year.
Area(s) of Interest
- Comics/Graphic Narratives
- Creativity
- Fiction
- Creative Nonfiction
Courses taught at WFU
- CRW 286: Making Comics
- CRW 386: Advanced Fiction
Selected Books
- 2027 Flowers, E. (under contract). Baltimore Brownfield. Montreal, Que: Drawn & Quarterly.
- 2019 Flowers, E. (2019). Hot Comb. Drawn & Quarterly.
Selected Publications & Illustrations
- 2025 Flowers, E. (Spring 2025 Issue). We Collect Cans for Money. Shenandoah Literary Magazine.
- 2024 Flowers, E. (December 3rd, 2024). A Sketch of Sunday. MoMA Magazine.
- 2020 Flowers, E. (2020). My Last Encounter with Pandemic Parenting. The New York Times.
- 2019 Flowers, E. (2019). Lines. The New Yorker.