Addie E. Citchens

Born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Addie Citchens graduated from Jackson State University and attended the Callaloo Workshop. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Midnight & Indigo, Mississippi Folklife Magazine, and The Oxford American. She is a 2025 O. Henry Award winner for her story, “That Girl.” FSG's inaugural Writer's Fellow, her highly-anticipated debut novel, Dominion, was released in August 2025. Dominion won the Tate-Green Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Willie Morris Award, the LA Times Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Women’s Prize.