FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME 

Middle-grade novel, out NOW from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux!

For Black Girls Like Me is a lyrical coming-of-age story about about adoption, family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity. Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?

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THE LUCKY DAUGHTER 

Poetry, now available: $10.00. Damaged Goods Press, 2017.

 

ONLINE WORK

• “upon moving back to michigan i plant a garden ​& become re-acquainted with my sister”  Muzzle Magazine

• “hummingbird music camp— summer, 1997” Paper Darts Magazine 

• “night sweats”  Perigee— Apogee Journal 

• “cottonwood” and “georgia in new mexico” Prelude Magazine, Issue 3 

• “mountains” Bodega Magazine, Issue 49

• “What A Black Woman Wishes Her Adoptive White Parents Knew”   BuzzFeed NEWS Reader

• “June 12, 2016” Pulsamos: LGBTQ poets respond to the Pulse Night Club shooting, Glass Poetry Press

• “tumbleweed” and “DO YOU LOVE IT? I LOVE IT! I GOT IT AT ROSS!”  Prelude Magazine

• “dear sis”  #bozalta4blacklives, Issue 2, Bozalta Journal

 

IN PRINT

• “kneel”  Colorado Review, Summer 2017
• “prunus persica”  Read America(s): An Anthology, Locked Horn Press

• “oakland, 2010” & “courses”  Washington Square, Issue 36

• “Georgia Slave Code, 1848” & “the lucky daughter” Uncommon Core: Contemporary poems for learning and living