Firmament of referentiality

UVA professor and poet Kiki Petrosino expands her story through prose


In her memoir Bright, Kiki Petrosino relates her experience as a Black American of interracial background through fairy tales and literary references to Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and Dante. Supplied photo.

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