Meet 2020 Winner Cassandra Lane
(Photo: Wreiko Dawson)
About Cassandra Lane:
Cassandra Lane is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times's Conception series, the Times-Picayune, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and elsewhere. She is managing editor of L.A. Parent magazine and formerly served on the board of the AROHO Foundation.
About We Are Bridges:
“A groundbreaking, lyrical patchwork of historical research, imagined pasts and futures, and personal narrative. Many will feel this book in their cells and bones.”
—KAELYN RICH, executive director, Bitch Media
“Lane boldly investigates the connections between transgenerational trauma, personal love, and the burden of memory. Her heartfelt memoir will stay with you.”
—YZ CHIN, author of Though I Get Home
The Feminist Press, TAYO Literary Magazine, and distinguished judges Jennifer Baker, Regina Brooks, YZ Chin, Bridgett M. Davis, Juli Delgado Lopera, Brontez Purnell, KaeLyn Rich, Melissa R. Sipin, and Jamia Wilson are honored to award the 2020 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize to Cassandra Lane for her book, We Are Bridges. Lane’s memoir weaves the story of her great-grandfather’s lynching with her experience of becoming a mother, attempting to unearth the lives of her ancestors and provide her child with a family record. The book will be published by the Feminist Press in the summer of 2021.