De’Shawn Charles Winslow
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De’Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of In West Mills, winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, an American Book Award, and the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Publishing Triangle Award. He was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.