I'm Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Emerita Professor of English, African-American Studies, and Professor of Law at Duke University. As a professor, my classrooms and scholarship focused on literature, law, and bioethics. In 2017 I turned my full attention to writing fiction (and tweeting -> @ProfHolloway).
A DEATH IN HARLEM, my debut literary fiction (TriQuarterly 2019) is a mystery set during the Harlem Renaissance. 
GONE MISSING IN HARLEM, (Triquarterly, April, 2021) is a novel about memory, mothering and resilience that bridges the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depression. Weldon Thomas, NYC's first colored policeman, returns to solve the mystery of a Harlem baby whose disappearance fails to engage the sa​me energies and interest as the contemporaneous Lindbergh kidnapping. I'm now captivated by the intrigue of a new "...in Harlem" story. Stay tuned! 

                                                                                                     BOOKCLUBS!
                                                                          If you are reading either of the "in Harlem" books,
                                                please email <kfch@Duke.edu> to invite Karla to join your Zoom meeting!

                                                            "But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison