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Rainelle Burton
October 31, 2003
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Rainelle
Burton is a writer-in-residence in the Interdisciplinary Studies
Program at Wayne State University and co-founder of the program’s
Detroit Institute for Creative Writers. Her debut novel, The
Root Worker, was published in 2001 and was reviewed and featured
in O Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Ebony,
Essence, Black Issues
Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, Madison
Times and the Ann
Arbor News. The novel was a Great Lakes Book Award finalist
in 2001. Burton is a Michigan regional representative for the
International Women’s Writing Guild and workshop director
at the Guild’s summer writers' conferences at Skidmore
College in Saratoga Springs, New York. |
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"Rainelle
Burton interweaves African American folklore with religious rumor
in
a moving and often suspenseful novel that borders on social commentary…(She)
brilliantly dances on the border of the grotesque to allow the
characters' anguish and innocence to seep into the reader's pores."
-Michelle Gipson in Black Issues Book Review.
To view Special Collections' holdings of Rainelle Burton's
work, please click here.
To hear Burton read from her own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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Last Updated:
April 13, 2007
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