Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans is a Black American spoken word poet and artist from Newark, New Jersey. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison with a BA in African American Studies, she is the author of Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels (2012) and Black Girl, Call Home (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2021), exploring queer Black identity, Newark girlhood, and mother-daughter bonds. The book was named one of Oprah's Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books, a TIME Magazine Must-Read, and won a Stonewall Book Award. Essence named Mans the #1 contemporary Black poet to know. She has served as inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Express Newark and as resident poet at the Newark Public Library.