Dionne Ford, Author at TueNight.com

Dionne Ford

Dionne Ford has been writing stories since her parents gave her a drugstore journal with a lock and key for her seventh birthday. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, More, Ebony, TheRumpus and other publications. An M.F.A. candidate at New York University, she is at work on a novel and a memoir. She has two daughters, two dogs, one husband and one blog - findingjosephine.com

Memoir

My Struggle With God Ended on a Plane

By Dionne Ford

It was my best friend, Brenda, who introduced God and me. I was four. She was eight and lived in my grandparent’s trailer park with her mom, dad, several rabbits… Read More

Stories

The Drug Talk I Never Needed to Have

By Dionne Ford

I’ve never had the drug talk with my 12- and 15-year-old daughters because I’ve never felt like I had to. So many people in our lives have died from alcohol… Read More

Memoir

Letters to the Editor, From the Daughter of a Slave

By Dionne Ford

(Photo courtesy of New England Historic Genealogical Society’s online resource, AmericanAncestors.org) In the late 1800s, my great-grandmother Josephine started writing to the Southwestern Christian Advocate, a newspaper based in New… Read More