Find me in the whirlwind. Nevada, July 4, 1910. Jack Johnson looming over the prostrate contender knocked out in the fifteenth round. “Never saw it coming,” says the loser two hours later in the back room of the speakeasy where they take him to recuperate on whisky sours and French bourbon. And Johnson walking away […]
JJ Amaworo Wilson
JJ Amaworo Wilson is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University; a faculty member on Stonecoast’s MFA in Creative Writing; and the author of over twenty books. His 2016 novel, Damnificados, won four major awards and was an Oprah Top Pick. His most recent novel, Nazaré, came out in 2021. He has lived in eleven countries and visited over seventy.