Lindale Banks is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri, born and raised there. She graduated from Hunter College’s MFA program, studying under Kathryn Harrison and Alexandra Styron. She lived several years in Europe, because of the Harlem Renaissance Writers, wanting to feel what they felt living abroad as a person of color. She went to Paris to connect with James Baldwin’s vibe.

I grew up in the heart of the Midwest during the 1970s, the era of peace, love, Vietnam War protests and what others claimed to be the end of the

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