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Michaela Strauther

Michaela Strauther is a writer currently pursuing her degree in Creative Writing, English, and Africana Studies at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She'll read *almost* anything, but when it comes to writing stories and novels, historical fiction has her heart. Despite going to school in New York, Black Southern culture frequently appears in her work. She published her first novel, Embers of Empire, at sixteen years old.

Family/FICTION | SHORT STORY/Love

Notcandied Yams

by Michaela Strauther

My mother never gave me the family recipe for candied yams, so I gotta figure it out myself. Everyone else already has…

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