Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the award-winning author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is on Parole and Nothing Here Needs Fixing. Her debut short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the Victorian Premier's Award Unpublished Manuscript Award (2013), the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction (2015) and the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction Book of The Year (2015). Foreign Soil was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize for Australian Women's writing (2015). Corsair will publish her memoir The Hate Race in 2016.
For any short story readers out there, this is the place to
start.
*Elle UK, the Best New Books for 2016*
Right from the very first story, Foreign Soil hits with a solid
emotional punch and shows how easily and convincingly Clarke can
adopt her character's voices.
This is really very good and, if you're concerned with identity or
love how language can be shaped, you should venture onto Clarke's
territory.
*Stylist*
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