Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
(On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.)
Sunday 9/13, 1pm

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of four award winning and critically-acclaimed novels: The River Where Blood is Born, Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him, and mystery novels, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes, and Savvy Summers and the Po’boy Perils. Her fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works are widely published and produced. Professional recognition includes a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the American Library Association Black Caucus Award, a Chicago Esteemed Artist Award, an Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award, a James Baldwin Fellowship at Macdowell Arts, the Malice Minotaur Award for First Traditional Mystery Novel, and others.