Born and raised in Detroit, Rita Woods is the award-winning author of two novels, Remembrance and The Last Dreamwalker, and has twice been named one of Chicago’s Top 50 Artists. Remembrance was the recipient of the AALBC (African American Literary Book Club) Award for Fiction and the Hurston-Wright Literary Award for fiction 2020 among others. The Last Dreamwalker was chosen as the Chicago Book of the Year for 2023 and a nominee for the Hurston-Wright Literary Award for Fiction 2022
A Board-Certified Internist, she is the Medical Director at a State Prison in Illinois. Rita lives outside of Chicago with her family where she also serves as a trustee on her local library board. She loves magic, history and coffee. Not necessarily in that order.
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