Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American’s Best of the South, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife, and she has been on the Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Radio. She was the inaugural recipient of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship. Dominion is her first novel.