Harlem Book Fair Preview: Authors Abi Ishola-Ayodeji, Kim Coleman Foote, and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

In the lead-up to the 2026 Harlem Book Fair, Authors Abi Ishola-Ayodeji, Kim Coleman Foote, and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond discuss what it might mean to write "a post-traumatic new". As writers, part of our job is to tell the truth, to accurately reflect the state of things past and present, to show us who we are and who we might be if we learn from the traumas of the past and choose a new way forward. But what does that new way even look like? How do we write about it, when we aren’t there yet? . This is A Green Room Conversation, a discussion series meant to bring you backstage and off script for dialogue about the issues we’re still trying to figure out.