Princess Joy L. Perry

Princess Joy L. Perry is a Virginia-based writer and master lecturer at Old Dominion University, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Her short fiction has appeared in Kweli Journal and other literary journals and anthologies. She won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award and a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, This Here is Love, was published by W.W. Norton in 2025.