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Joe Okonkwo

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Syracuse, The United States

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Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical Fiction

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Joe’s debut novel Jazz Moon won the Publishing Triangle's prestigious Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl, has called Jazz Moon “A passionate, alive, and original novel about love, race, and jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris — a moving story of traveling far to find oneself.”

Joe's short stories have appeared in Newtown Literary, Global City Review, The Piltdown Review, The New Engagement, Storychord, Shotgun Honey, Love Stories from Africa, Best Gay Stories 2015, and Strength. His short story “Cleo” earned a Pushcart Prize nomination.

Joe served as prose editor for Newtown Literary, a journal dedicated to nurturing writers from Queens, New Yo ...more

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	Jazz Moon 3.92 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck 4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Gay Stories 2017 by Joe Okonkwo (Goodreads Author), David Barclay Moore (Goodreads Author), Martin Pousson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Gay Stories 2015 by Steve Berman (Editor), Keith Banner, Richard Bowes (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strength Anthology Volume 1 (Snow Leopard Charitable Anthology Series) by Snow Leopard Publishing, River Rivers (Contributor), Elaine White (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Stories From Africa by Nonso Anyanwu (Editor), Basit Jamiu, Acan Innocent Immaculate it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milk Chocolate/Naked Moon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Artist David Emmanuel Noel interviewed me about Jazz Moon, which will be released on May 31.

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Jazz Moon will be released by Kensington Books on May 31! Read more of this blog post »

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“Harlem had been hit by a hurricane: It was raining cats and jazz.”
― Joe Okonkwo, Jazz Moon

tags: cats, jazz

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“He so often felt as though he hailed from a different species, not quite human. He’d always been different, had never fit. Negroes looked at him askance, questioning his credentials as a Negro man. Whites did, too. For both groups, he wasn’t Negro enough.”
― Joe Okonkwo, Jazz Moon

tags: negro, species

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“Paris. Bright miracle. But behind every bright thing creeps its shadows. The moon had its shadows and Paris had hers.They lurked in her back streets and back alleys, in parks and in basements.”
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