A few years ago, because I was having trouble finding upcoming books by women writers who were Black, Indigenous, and people of color to read and review, I compiled and published a list of such titles. If I was having trouble, I thought, then others surely were, too. Maybe they'd also find the list useful.
A lot of people did, as it turned out. The list became one of Electric Literature's most shared pieces, as it did when I compiled a new list the next year, and the year after that. This list is now in its fourth year, and has expanded to include nonbinary writers of color; it gets larger each year, and I'm told it's used to help inform books coverage in other publications, that high school teachers and college professors look to this Electric Literature list when forming syllabi. This fills me with such complicated joy: my hope is that, one day, publishing will be so inclusive that a list like this will become less useful.
