Julia McKenzie Munemo

Julia McKenzie Munemo is the author of The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy (Swallow Press 2020), which explores how she—a white woman—learned, decades after her father’s suicide and several years into her marriage to a Black man, that her father made his living writing interracial pornography set during slavery. Her work has appeared in Public Seminar, Solstice Literary Magazine, Inside Higher Education, and elsewhere. Her second book, Dreaming in Whitopia: Essays on Motherhood, Mental Health, and Race from a White American Town, is a collection of linked essays that trace her journey as a white mother of young Black men in a small New England town—she hopes to announce its publication very soon. She holds a BA from Bard, an EdM from Harvard, and an MFA from Stonecoast. She directs the Williams College Writing Center and lives in western Massachusetts.