Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham is a Caribbean African American writer and recipient of the 2023 de Groot Courage to Write prize and a 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar. Her writing has appeared in swamp pink, Indiana Review, X-R-A-Y Magazine, Litmosphere, as a second-place finisher in their 2023 Lit/South Awards in Fiction, among other publications.
She is also the co-host/producer of The Write Attention Podcast and co-founder of the nonprofit Black Women Writers in Europe.
She is currently working on a novel trilogy incorporating family history and horror mythology from the African Diaspora beginning with the novel-in-progress, What Time Is It Mr. Wolf, a mythologized account of her uncle's real-life struggle with mental illness as a Black boy growing up in Baltimore public housing in the 1950-70s as he navigates the turbulence of the times, the social dynamics of a historically black university, and post-war Germany as a Fulbright student. His mental unraveling is explored through the figurative lens of a werewolf transformation. The novel navigates themes such as the meaning of time, the Black achievement trap and sexual agency.
