Princess Joy L. Perry
Author and recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, whose fiction has appeared in All About Skin, African American Review, and Kweli Journal; author of the novel This Here Is Love (W.W. Norton, 2025).
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Jan 31, 2026 • 53min
Princess Joy L. Perry, "This Here Is Love" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Princess Joy L. Perry, an award-winning novelist and fellowship recipient, discusses her novel This Here Is Love. She explores writing across Virginia history, shaping three intertwined lives at the seventeenth-century frontier. Conversations touch on research-driven sensory detail, removing whiteness from the narrative, influences like Toni Morrison, and the novel’s long evolution and title choice.
