Bliss Broyard is the author of the bestselling story collection, My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and the award-winning memoir, One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets, which was named a best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the Essence Literary Prize.
Her stories and essays have been anthologized in It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (to benefit the ACLU), Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Art of the Essay, and others. She has written for New York Magazine, The New York Times, NewYorker.com, The Guardian, The Believer, Conde Nast Traveler, Elle, “O” the Oprah Magazine, Time, and many other publications.
She writes frequently about issues of economic and racial justice and is working on a second book that combines memoir and reporting that she’s calling Grand Avenue: A Tale of Two Cities in Brooklyn.