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Kaitlyn Greenidge is an American fiction writer. She is the author of the novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin Books 2016). The novel was a finalist for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the New York Public Library's 2017 Young Lions Award. She is currently a contributing editor to Lenny Letter. She is the sister of playwright Kirsten Greenidge and the historian Kerri Greenidge.

Career
Greenidge grew up in the Boston area. She graduated from the Commonwealth School and Wesleyan University. She earned her MFA from Hunter College. She was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and received a Whiting Award. She is a 2018-19 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, is set in the early 1990s. It concerns a black family from Boston that moves to a nearly all-white town in Western Massachusetts to take part in an experiment where they teach sign language to a chimpanzee. Janet Maslin, writing in the New York Times, called We Love You, Charlie Freeman a "terrifically auspicious debut." Maslin wrote, "Ms. Greenidge has charted an ambitious course for a book that begins so mock-innocently." The Huffington Post called the novel "Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America’s treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today." The New York Times named the novel one of the Top 10 Critic's Picks of 2016.

REPORTED PIECES

 * “Escape Through Death: The Story of Henrietta Duterte”, Damn Joan
 * “Secrets of the South”, Lenny Letter
 * “What Happens When Ballet Puts Black Lives At Its Center”, Elle.com

PROFILES AND INTERVIEWS

 * "Poet Laureate Tracy K Smith on America's Troubled Racial History", Vogue
 * "Dorothy Allison, The Outlaw in the Ivory Tower", LENNY Letter
 * "John Waters: I Love Women Who Hate Men and Hate Men Who Hate Women", LENNY Letter
 * "Lorraine O'Grady: From Bureaucrat to Rock Critic to World-Renowned Artist", LENNY Letter
 * "Violently Wrought: Kaitlyn Greenidge Interviews Marlon James", Guernica
 * Interview with Victor LaValle, The Believer

REVIEWS AND CRITICISM

 * “On TV, Black Girls’ Sadness Doesn’t Get to Be Sexy,” Glamour Magazine
 * “A Closer Look at Beyonce and the Female Deities She Channels”, Elle.com
 * “Shaken Out of Time: A review of Zadie Smith’s Swing Time”, Virginia Quarterly Review
 * “2008 Was a Celebration, 2016 is the Opposite”, New York Times
 * “Who Gets to Write What?”, New York Times
 * “Clothes for a 70s Cult: Vivienne Tam Review”, Elle.com
 * “Bonds of Brooklyn: Review of Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn”, Boston Globe
 * “On Michelle Obama”, New York Times Election Blog
 * “The Riotous Power of Toni Morrison”, Virginia Quarterly Review
 * “POC vs MFA: Response to Junot Diaz”, Asian American Literary Review
 * “What I Love, What I Hate, What I Should Like: Lorraine Hansberry: A Museum Show and Opening the Archive”, Outhistory.org

PERSONAL ESSAYS

 * “Sisterhood Felt Meaningless, So My Sisters and I Got in the Car”, New York Times
 * “Texting with Boys”, New York Times
 * “The Dread of Taxes that Even Beyonce Can’t Fix”, New York Times
 * “Sacred Space: A Review of the National African American History Museum”, Lenny Letter
 * “Eat the Fish”, Lenny Letter
 * “A Small Place for Us”, Lenny Letter
 * “There’s No Freedom in Failure”, Elle.com
 * “Shattering Three Generations of Beauty Myths”, Elle.com
 * “This Story is For Anyone Who Feels Invisible”, Elle.com
 * “My Mother’s Garden”, New York Times
 * “Language is Failing Us”, Salon.com

SHORT FICTION

 * “I Love Betty”, Lenny Letter
 * “Four Tales for Dry Land”, The Offing
 * “Nymphadora of Spring City, 1929”, Transition Magazine at the Hutchinson Center Harvard, Issue 118
 * "Empire of the Universe", Kweli Journal
 * “A Mindful World”, Apogee Journal
 * "Axe Wound", Guernica
 * Excerpt of “Planets”, The Feminist Wire

Honors

 * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 * Bread Loaf Fellowship
 * Whiting Award