Jasmine Mans, author portrait
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Jasmine Mans

Jasmine Mans is a Black American writer and artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a B.A. in African American Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Black Girl, Call Home, was published to critical and commercial success in 2021, going on to win a Stonewall Award. Mans is the owner and CEO of Buy Weed From Women, a cannabis-adjacent product design company in New Jersey.
Black Girl, Call Home

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Black Girl, Call Home

WATCH: Audiobooks Read by the Author Panel from the Penguin Random House Book & Author Festival

Watch spoken word poet Jasmine Mans, author of Black Girl, Call Home and Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language, discuss their writing, the power of the spoken word and their experiences narrating their own audiobooks.

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