It was the fourth most deadly tornado in the country’s history. Minrose’s 2018 novel, Promise, imagines the aftermath of the devastating Tupelo, Mississippi tornado of 1936. She started out as a newspaper and wire service reporter in Mobile, Atlanta, Nashville, and Knoxville. She currently lives in Chapel Hill and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Minrose has been a writer all of her working life. Gwin has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She is also a coeditor of The Literature of the American South. When a tornado struck the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, in April 1936, more than 200 people died. 27, 2018 After a natural disaster, two families must confront the awful event that links them. Drawing on historical events, Minrose Gwin beautifully imagines natural and. In Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement, she writes of the reverberating impact of this lesser-known Civil Rights leader’s martyrdom. PROMISE by Minrose Gwin RELEASE DATE: Feb. Gwins gift shines in the complexity of her characters and their fraught. Wearing another hat, Gwin is also a teacher, author of cultural studies books, and editor, focusing on issues of social justice. Her memoir, Wishing for Snow, tells the story of her mother’s descent into mental illness. Her civil rights-era novel, The Queen of Palmyra, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award, and a Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads selection. Gwin began her writing career as a newspaper and wire service reporter in cities throughout the southeast. She grew up hearing wild stories about the devastating Tupelo tornado of 1936-flying babies, dehorned cows, people dangling in bare-limbed trees-all of which would find their way into Promise, a novel that unearths the deeper devastation of racial injustice. Like the characters in her latest novel, Promise, Minrose Gwin is a native of Tupelo, Mississippi.

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