{"id":1326,"date":"2025-09-23T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:06:18","slug":"danzy-senna-2025-aba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/09\/danzy-senna-2025-aba\/","title":{"rendered":"Danzy Senna"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Mark Thompson<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/09\/danzy-senna-faculty-recognition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1313 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/09\/danzy-senna-faculty-recognition-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Mark Thompson outdoors on campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/danzy-senna\/\"><strong>Danzy Senna<\/strong><\/a>, professor of English, is a recipient of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">46th Annual American Book Award<\/a> from the Before Columbus Foundation for her novel <em>Colored Television<\/em>. The award honors literary excellence without limitations or restrictions, recognizing both established writers and under-recognized voices. Senna\u2019s work has previously received accolades including the Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, the Dos Passos Prize and the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction for her debut novel, <em>Caucasia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/danzy-senna\/\"><strong>Danzy Senna<\/strong><\/a>, professor of English, has received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com\/\">46th Annual American Book Award<\/a> from the Before Columbus Foundation for her novel <em>Colored Television<\/em>. The award honors literary excellence without limitations or restrictions, recognizing both established writers and under-recognized voices. Senna\u2019s work has previously received accolades including the Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, the Dos Passos Prize and the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction for her debut novel, <em>Caucasia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-humanities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Danzy Senna<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/09\/danzy-senna-2025-aba\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Danzy Senna - USC Dornsife News Briefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Danzy Senna, professor of English, has received a 46th Annual American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her novel Colored Television. 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