February 22
Celebrating the literary legacy of Black writers in North Carolina
Jason Mott (1979)
Bolton, NC
“Jason Mott is an American novelist and poet, born in Bolton, North Carolina. He attended Cape Fear Community College and graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiction and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. His fourth novel, Hell of a Book, won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.” - Wikipedia









