AUTHOR

Tina Jenkins Bell

T I N A J E N K I N S B E L L LIT AND BLOGS

• Butt Off Green Couch

  https://www.chicagowrites.org/blog/entry/green-couch

• What Is Author Intrusion

  https://www.chicagowrites.org/blog/entry/what-is-author-intrusion

• Reading Blackness https://southsideweekly.com/reading-blackness/

• Messy Genius

  https://sundressblog.com/2021/04/27/sundress-announces-the-releases-2021-craft-chaps-a-delicious-letter-correspondence-on-narrative-time-in-fiction-by-megan-giddings-and-messy-genius-by-tina-jenkins-bell/

Tina Jenkins Bell is a published fiction writer, playwright, freelance journalist, and literary activist. Her fiction straddles literary and speculative fiction. Her most recent short fiction, “Swimming,” was published by Jet Fuel and selected by Sonder Press to reappear in their anthology, Best Small Fiction, due out in November 2022. “The Visit,” a speculative piece about an older woman’s dance with death, will be published this fall, too, in Reliving Mythology: A Collection of Black Magical Stories and Poetry. Other published short works include a mini memoir, “Devil’s Alley,” which appeared in the Us Against Alzheimer’s anthology; a speculative short story, “To the Moon and Back,” appeared in Hypertext Journal and was later nominated for an Illinois Arts Council award; “White Vans,” flash prose, was published by South Side Weekly; and The Last Supper was published in Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Bell collaborated with Janice Tuck Lively and Felicia Madlock to write a hybrid fictional account of Robert Sandifer's (the young boy who was murdered by his own gang) last hours; “Looking for the Good Boy Yummy” was published in They Said by Black Lawrence Press.

 Bell’s play Cut the Baby in Half was featured as a staged dramatic reading at the Greenline Performing Arts Center, and she collaborated with Janice Tuck Lively and Sandra Jackson Opoku to write A Conversation with Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks, a fictional account of two literary icons discussing race and women’s issues during a chance meeting in heaven. “A Conversation…” was produced as a staged reading by the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2019.

 Bell is a co-founder of FLOW (For Love of Writing) and has collaborated with numerous writing organizations, authors, and bookstores to offer literary programming in Chicago’s underserved communities. She is currently working on her second novel, Down and Dirty in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

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