Prose #9: Diamond Braxton

"A Piece of You" and "Sugar Rush" by Diamond Braxton

(Southeast Texas) In these two pieces, a woman considers her family ties and sense of self in all their rich and sweet complexities.

This is the ninth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers.

"A Piece of You" was recently chosen for the Best Microfiction Anthology.

"Sugar Rush" was included in this year's Best of the Net Anthology.

Diamond Braxton is a queer, mixed-race Black-Mexican writer and editor pursuing an MFA at Texas State University. She is a Best of the Net and Best Microfiction nominee and has work published in The Forge, Stanchion, Alebrijes Review, Rejection Letters, The Acentos Review, The Hellebore, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, and Mixed Mag and is also a Tin House ‘21 Workshop alum. She resides in Houston, Texas, where she started as the prose editor and was promoted to editor in chief for Defunkt Magazine; she is also a copyeditor for Porter House Review. Learn more about her work at www.diamondgizellebraxton.com.

• Publication Date: March 2023
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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