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Rebekah Weatherspoon

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United States

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Rebekah Weatherspoon is an American author and romance novelist. Her books often feature heroines who are black, plus-size, disabled, and LGBTQ. She founded the website WOC in Romance. Weatherspoon received a 2017 Lambda Literary Award for her novel Soul to Keep and was an honoree at the inaugural Ripped Bodice Awards for Excellence in Romance Fiction for Xeni.

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