Addie Citchens

Addie Citchens was born in the Mississippi Delta, graduated from Jackson State University, and attended the Callaloo Writer Workshop. She has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Midnight & Indigo, The Columbia Journal, and The Oxford American. She is a 2025 O. Henry Award winner for her short story, “That Girl.” In 2023 her short story “The Good Samaritan” was featured in The Paris Review issue that won the Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Her Blues history work is featured heavily in Mississippi Folklife Magazine. FSG’s inaugural Writer’s Fellow, Addie’s highly-anticipated debut novel, Dominion, was published in August, 2025.