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Erica N. Cardwell

Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator currently based in Toronto. She is the recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her writing has appeared in ARTS.BLACK, Frieze, BOMB, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. Her book Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art will be published by the Feminist Press in March 2024. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Food

Black Estrangement

Chicken Soup: Seven Attempts

By Erica N. Cardwell

to say it happens, unaided, without sanction, would be untrue — “Pathology,” Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa 1. The kitchen on Medway was our initial sanctuary. You know the place. Thirty-year-old appliances the […]