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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2017
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • 2018 PEN America Literary Award Winnerâ€"Los Angeles  Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme p...



  • A Paris Review Staff Pick and an Amazon Editors' Pick. Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize."Bold, witty, ominous a...



  • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books and The Millions"Told by machines from the future, Blackburn’s idiosyncratic grief novel is as freshl...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Venita Blackburn has published 3 books.

Venita Blackburn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead in Long Beach, California, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Venita Blackburn, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories, was published in September 2017.

No. Venita Blackburn does not write books in series.