Tamara Winfrey Harris is a writer who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersects with race and gender.

Tamara's first book, The Sisters Are All Right, Changing the Broken Narrative of Black

Women in America, was called A Myth-Busting Portrait of Black Women in America by The Washington

Post.

The book also won the Phyllis Wheatley Award, Indy Fab Award, Independent Publisher's

Living Now Award, and the IPPY Award.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. She has also been called to share her analysis on media outlets, including NPR's Weekend Edition,

and Janet Mock's So Popular on MSNBC.com, as well as university campuses nationwide.

She will be reading from her newest book, Dear Black Girl, Letters from Your Sisters on

Stepping Into Your Power.

And she will be accompanied by an original storybound remix with Aravoy Simone.

Hello, you're listening

to Tamara Winfrey Harris

and Storybound.

I'll be reading from my new book,

Dear Black Girl,

letters from your sisters

on stepping into your power.

Welcome to Storybound, presented by Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate.

I'm your host, Jude Brewer.

In just a little bit, you're going to get to hear Tamara read a series of letters written by black women on how they keep the magic when their beauty or their smarts are challenged.

Here are the magic spells in the voice of Tamara Winfrey Harris.

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