Delores Phillips (Author) DELORES PHILLIPS (1950-2014) was born in Georgia, but spent most of her adult life in Cleveland, Ohio as a nurse, poet, teacher, and mother. She is perhaps best known for her debut novel, The Darkest Child, which, in-part at least, tells the story of Tangy Mae Quinn’s experience as the first Black girl to integrate a Towns County, Georgia high school. The Darkest Child won the Black Caucus of the ALA award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her work has also appeared in Jean’s Journal, Black Time, and The Crisis.Delia Steverson (Editor) DELIA STEVERSON is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared in TheJournal of American Culture, The South Carolina Review, The College Language Association Journal, and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

It is a pleasure to see the care Steverson has taken with the organization and editing of Phillips’s work. Stumbling Blocks and Other Unpublished Work is highly original, as Phillips was such an innovative writer and thinker, and little is known about her. An absolutely necessary text.

Delores Phillips (Author) DELORES PHILLIPS (1950-2014) was born in Georgia, but spent most of her adult life in Cleveland, Ohio as a nurse, poet, teacher, and mother. She is perhaps best known for her debut novel, The Darkest Child, which, in-part at least, tells the story of Tangy Mae Quinn’s experience as the first Black girl to integrate a Towns County, Georgia high school. The Darkest Child won the Black Caucus of the ALA award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her work has also appeared in Jean’s Journal, Black Time, and The Crisis.Delia Steverson (Editor) DELIA STEVERSON is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared in TheJournal of American Culture, The South Carolina Review, The College Language Association Journal, and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

It is a pleasure to see the care Steverson has taken with the organization and editing of Phillips’s work. Stumbling Blocks and Other Unpublished Work is highly original, as Phillips was such an innovative writer and thinker, and little is known about her. An absolutely necessary text.

Delores Phillips (Author) DELORES PHILLIPS (1950-2014) was born in Georgia, but spent most of her adult life in Cleveland, Ohio as a nurse, poet, teacher, and mother. She is perhaps best known for her debut novel, The Darkest Child, which, in-part at least, tells the story of Tangy Mae Quinn’s experience as the first Black girl to integrate a Towns County, Georgia high school. The Darkest Child won the Black Caucus of the ALA award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her work has also appeared in Jean’s Journal, Black Time, and The Crisis.Delia Steverson (Editor) DELIA STEVERSON is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared in TheJournal of American Culture, The South Carolina Review, The College Language Association Journal, and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

It is a pleasure to see the care Steverson has taken with the organization and editing of Phillips’s work. Stumbling Blocks and Other Unpublished Work is highly original, as Phillips was such an innovative writer and thinker, and little is known about her. An absolutely necessary text.