Black Power Barbie - Paperback

Shay Youngblood is the author of the novels Black Girl in Paris, Winter Prophet, Black Power Barbie and a collection of short fiction, The Big Mama Stories. Her plays, Amazing Grace, Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery, and Talking Bones, have been widely produced. Her other plays include Flying Blind, Square Blues and Communism Killed My Dog. She has worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the eastern Caribbean, as an au pair, artist's model, and poet's helper in Paris, and as a creative writing instructor in a Rhode Island women's prison. She was a Japan U.S. Friendship Commission, Creative Artist Fellow (2011) and Dallas Museum of Art, Writer in Residence (2013).