Karen Good Marable

Welcome

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ABOUT ME

I’m a writer raised in Prairie View, Texas. My essays, music journalism, and stories have appeared in several books and publications including The New Yorker, Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner,Seventeen, and Essence. After a lifetime of living in Brooklyn, I now reside in Atlanta with my family.

YAYA AND THE SEA:

On the first day of spring, when the city is quiet and still, little Yaya takes the A train down to New York City’s southern shores with her mama and aunties to greet Mama Ocean and celebrate the arrival of a new season through a ritual of letting go of the past and embracing the new.

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