Writing about mortality, race, identity
and the subjects we avoid.
Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, featured on BBC Radio 4. A 2024 Rockower Award recipient for excellence in personal essay, she has recently completed a manuscript of linked essays, Exit, Stage Left, that explores how the living wrestle with dying. A retired literature professor from King’s College London, her work has appeared in Psyche and Lilith, among others.
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