Alexia Arthurs

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Biography

Alexia Arthurs was born and raised in Jamaica and moved with her family to Brooklyn when she was twelve. A graduate of Hunter College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has been published in Granta, The Sewanee Review, Small Axe, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, Shondaland, Buzzfeed, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. How to Love a Jamaican is her first book. 

Years Attended

2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant

Alexia Arthurs

Author
Jamaica, USA
Events Featuring Alexia Arthurs
2019
Why fairy tales still matter
Big Ideas, Festival Programme Event
Presentation Event
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AV Room
2019
Take Two: Claire Adam (Golden Child) and Alexia Arthurs (How to Love a Jamaican)
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
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Old Fire Station
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