J. Vanessa Lyon
J. Vanessa Lyon is an art historian on the Bennington College faculty, a poet, and a novelist. Her novel Lush Lives was published by Roxane Gay Books in 2023; her visual-studies memoir Blackness Thirteen Ways: Art, Life, & the Revisions of a Mulatta Lesbian was published by Pantheon on October 20, 2026.
Career
Art Historian; Novelist; Poet
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
African American
Additional Languages
English
Pronouns
She/Her
About
- Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
- African American
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Bennington, Vermont, United States
- Additional Languages
- English
