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Verdelle&#8217;s debut novel, The Good Negress, won five national prizes-including the American Academy of Arts &amp; Letters, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the American Library Association; and finalist prizes at the Los Angeles Times, the IMPAC\/Dublin Award, and the PEN\/Faulkner Foundation. The Good Negress has been used as a novel text in colleges and universities nationally. Verdelle has written both fiction and creative nonfiction, and published essays about wide-reaching subjects. 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Beginning in Africa in the 1500s, Kopacz takes the reader on a journey that captures historical moments such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Trail of Tears, and the Abolitionist Movement and people such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet &#8220;Moses&#8221; Tubman. Shallow Waters symbolizes her blending of these moments and people to create a novel under the umbrella of Black Speculative Fiction. Kopacz discusses what this process has been for her and why she was motivated to write this novel. When asked about writers who have influenced her, she immediately referenced Octavia Butler who illustrated that fantasy novels representing Black people could be situated in Africa. Kopacz is the former editor-in-chief of Heart and Soul magazine.<\/p>\r\n<p><a role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/CenterforBlackLiteratureMedgarEversCollege\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Watch More Videos\"> Watch More Videos <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/what-we-do\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tenth National Black Writers Conference, March 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tenth-National-Black-Writers-Conference-March-2010-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College presented the Tenth National Black Writers Conference: March 2010: Pictured (front row, left to right): Honoree Amiri Baraka; Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director, Center for Black Literature; poet and presenter Sonia Sanchez; Honorary Chair Toni Morrison; Dr. Cornel West; and Susan L. Taylor. (Back row, left to right) Dean Richard Jones; Dean Moses Newsome; MEC student, and Honoree Kamau Brathwaite. Photo by Andre Beckles.\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\r\n<h2>About the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY<\/h2>\r\n<p>For 20 years, the programs of the Center for Black Literature (CBL) have had a dynamic impact in the literary field. The highly anticipated author readings and book signings, journals, symposia, conferences, panel discussions, and writing workshops-and the Center&#8217;s intellectual and accessible approach to programming-form an integrative approach to programming that sets CBL apart from others. 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