Asali Solomon’s first novel, Disgruntled, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. Her debut story collection, Get Down, earned her a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vibe, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney’s, and several anthologies, and on NPR. Solomon teaches fiction writing and literature of the African diaspora at Haverford College. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Interviews

• A Day in the Life: Asali Solomon talks about craft, social media and her new novel, Bookforum, by Porochista Khakpour

• Novelist’s ‘Disgruntled’ Heroine is Drawn from Her Own Childhood, Fresh Air with Terry Gross. 

• Her West Philadelphia Childhood is Stranger Than Fiction, The Philadelphia Inquirer, by Samantha Melamed

• The Rumpus Interview with Asali Solomon, by Stephanie Trott

• “A Superior Remix of that Divide” Apiary, by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

• “A Settled Place Within”: A Conversation with Asali Solomon, Spectacle, by Charles Ramsay McCrory

• Book Q&A, Deborah Kalb

• Writing Life, Haverford Magazine, by Lini Kadaba

• Interview with Asali Solomon, Bookclub Babble by Kelly Sarabyn