Carolivia Herron is a retired professor, children’s book author, novelist, and librettist. Her work traces classical epic traditions throughout contemporary African American literature and locates convergences and points of contact between Blackness and Jewishness. Her writing is characterized by formal innovation and experimentation and she tells deeply autobiographical narratives that stretch back centuries. Much of her work traces patterns of shared trauma and convergence between Blackness and Jewishness, from the late fifteenth-century Jewish expulsions from Spain and Portugal, to the Atlantic slave trade, to the Holocaust and contemporary racism and antisemitism.

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Carolivia Herron

Carolivia Herron is a retired professor, children’s book author, novelist, and librettist. Her work traces classical epic traditions throughout contemporary African American literature and locates convergences and points of contact between Blackness and Jewishness. Her writing is characterized by formal innovation and experimentation and she tells deeply autobiographical narratives that stretch back centuries. Much of her work traces patterns of shared trauma and convergence between Blackness and Jewishness, from the late fifteenth-century Jewish expulsions from Spain and Portugal, to the Atlantic slave trade, to the Holocaust and contemporary racism and antisemitism.

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