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The Lemon Project is thrilled to announce that Dr. Ravynn Stringfield will join us on April 17 at 5:30 pm in Tucker Theater and virtually for a Lemon's Legacies Porch Talk. Join us as we celebrate the publication of Ravynn's new book, Love in 280 Characters or Less. Ravynn will read a selection from her work and then take part in a conversation. After the Porch Talk, come to Tucker Lobby to purchase Ravynn's books. Ravynn will also be signing books in the lobby.

Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield is an author, editor and artist based in Virginia.

Ravynn’s debut young adult novel LOVE REQUIRES CHOCOLATE was published by Joy Revolution on August 20, 2024. Her second young adult novel, LOVE IN 280 CHARACTERS OR LESS, from Feiwel & Friends, will release on April 15, 2025. Her book length fiction is represented by Leah Pierre of Ladderbird Agency.

Her writing practice also includes scholarship, blogging, crafting essays and short stories. Ravynn’s scholarly work (articles, short pieces and reviews) has appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Alternative Histories of the Digital Humanities and INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Her freelance writing has appeared in ZORA, Shondaland, Greatist and Catapult. She was a columnist at Catapult, writing the column “Superhero Girlfriends Anonymous," from 2021-2022 and penned a column for University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Radio-Television-Film’s FLOW Journal from 2021-2022. Ravynn’s short fiction has appeared in midnight & indigo‘s speculative fiction special issue and she was awarded second place in the Voyage YA Journal First Chapters Contest, judged by NYT Bestselling Author, Dhonielle Clayton. She wrote the weekly blog, Black Girl Does Grad School, from 2016-2022, and now blogs at Reign of Ravynn on Substack. Currently, Ravynn serves as a non-fiction editor for midnight & indigo, a magazine and publishing company dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black women. Ravynn is also an amateur artist and enjoys making illustrations of Black girls being happy and their magical selves. If you are interested in following her art practice, you can visit her art instagram page. When she’s not writing or making art, she can be found posted up in local coffee shops, tending her sunflowers or telling her dog, Genghis, all about her Lois Lane obsession. Connect with Ravynn on Instagram (@RavynnKaMia) or via her website, www.ravynnkstringfield.com. 

Image credit: Photography by Fonnae Webb

Sponsored by: The Lemon Project

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lemon@wm.edu, The Lemon Project team

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