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Chant Reid is a writer from the Bronx, New York. She holds writing degrees from both Brooklyn College and Brown University, and has been an adjunct instructor up and down New England.
Thot by Chante L. Reid is both a brilliant hybrid engagement with one of world literature's very greatest novels and an extraordinarily moving reflection that not only describes but also embodies the complex matrix of forces that have crackled their way through her 21st century thinking and making life. Love, death, friendship, grievous violence, systemic racism, Greek Myth, American History and life in the Bronx she hails from are just a very little of what Reid takes up in this stunning first book. Those of us who have been following her work for a while have known Reid would come flying out of the gates and, well, here is the emphatic proof. --Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist for Zorrie Stunning. I simply could not admire a debut more than I admire Chante L. Reid's. --Rick Moody, author of The Long Accomplishment
