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Ravynn K. Stringfield, Ph.D. is a writer, artist and former academic based in Virginia. Her titles include the recently published young adult digital epistolary novel, Love in 280 Characters or Less (2025), and her debut, Love Requires Chocolate (2024). She blogged at Black Girl Does Grad School from 2016-2022 during her graduate program in American Studies.

This is a space for her long form thoughts that don’t quite fit on microblogging sites and don’t quite meet the requirements for published CNF. You’ll likely find a variety of posts here: musings, critical essays, reviews, lists and recommendations, first looks at art and other writings that may struggle to find a home.

For more about Ravynn, please visit her website.

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A former academic turned young adult novelist writes about what she knows: how to think critically about popular culture, what's good to read and watch, how to make things and why/how we learn and study.

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