Forty Acres inside African American Studies

Phyllis R. Dixon is the author of the novel Forty Acres, which won fiction awards from Los Angeles Black Book Expo, Detroit Literary Collective and Urban Spectrum Newspaper.  Forty Acres has been used in classes at LeMoyne Owen College, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Southeast Arkansas Community College and City College of San Francisco.  Her book   Let the Brother Go If…,appeared on the Emerge magazine Best Seller list.  She is a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul,and has written for  American Legacy magazine and the Memphis Commercial Appeal.  She resides in Memphis, Tennessee.