Solomon’s (she/her) novels and short stories portray the lives of Black Philadelphians in a city contending with economic and existential transformations like gentrification and climate change. Through a combination of reality, memory, imagination, and humor, Solomon situates her work in what she describes as “a multi-ethnic, culturally fertile space characterized by a diversity of Black identities.” Her books (all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) include the short story collection Get Down and novels Disgruntled and Days of Afrekete, which was included in The New York Times’ and New York Magazine’s lists of the best books of 2021. She is an English professor at Haverford College. Solomon earned an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa; a PhD in English and an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Berkley; and a BA in pan-African studies from Barnard College.
