ZZ Packer
Feisty Black Ivy League Writer By Tracy O’NeillVibrant, energetic, and tough, Packer's prose crams each of her short stories with an impressive amount of bittersweet humor and guile.
A spirited voice entered the literary world with the advent of ZZ Packer's first short story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Raised in Kentucky and Georgia, she graduated from Yale University before receiving master's degrees from John Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. With the zest, zip, and zeal expected from a woman self-dubbed ZZ, Packer has assumed the role of the preeminent contemporary strong black female writer, despite an expressed resistance to being considered a "black writer." Rejecting preachy allegories, she has instead produced smart, witty, and fierce stories centered around young characters, usually women, struggling to understand and overcome the challenges of drugs, religion, poverty, sexual identity, and a wide range of stereotypes. Vibrant, energetic, and tough, Packer's prose crams each of her short stories with an impressive amount of bittersweet humor and guile.
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