Balm - Dolen Perkins-valdez

Perkins-Valdez, Dolen: - Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Wench . In 2011 she was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. She was also awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, D.C. @Dolen / dolenperkinsvaldez.com