Profound, reverent, and uplifting, Last Summer on State Street explores the impact of racist institutions, redlining, gentrification, the power of owning one’s past, and those defining relationships which form the heartbeat of our lives.ĭawn Turner is an award-winning author and journalist. Yet the story is filled with joy and buoyancy-a beautiful reminder of childhood innocence and the power of community and family.
In this stunning debut novel, inspired by the author’s own lived experience, Wolfe pulls back the curtain on life inside the projects, portraying with absolute authenticity what it’s like to grow up in a world where gang violence, stray bullets, and predators are a part of one’s social fabric. She currently resides in Chicago, Last Summer On State Street is her debut novel. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition, and the Betty Shifflet/John Schultz Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hair Trigger 27, and WarpLand.
She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Toya Wolfe grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago’s South Side. Held in partnership with CCC founding member Chicago Public Library J6:00pm - 7:30pm Meet Toya Wolfe: Author of Last Summer On State Street with Dawn Turner
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