All my life, I’ve wanted to write stories that would change the world…

 

Lori L. Tharps is…

Lori L. Tharps is an award-winning, Black-American author based in the south of Spain. Using both fiction and nonfiction, Lori explores Blackness beyond borders, all manners of domestic affairs, and the magical in the mundane. She is passionate about books, black tea, and the revolutionary act of writing a happy ending.

 

“With great sensitivity and unapologetic boldness, Tharps skillfully weaves the rich historical context of the United States, the Americas and Asia with wrenching contemporary first-person accounts to investigate how color operates in the most intimate spaces of American families.”

— ALLYSON HOBBS, NEW YORK TIMES, REVIEWING SAME FAMILY, DIFFERENT COLORS