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ABOUT
WOULF
I grew up in a small city in Virginia, and being the middle
child of five has afforded me the experience
of witnessing and being subjected to the attitudes and relationships
among black people. My love for storytelling started at a
young age. However, it wasn’t until my junior year of
college that I started writing those stories.
In graduate school, I put my creative writing on the shelf
while I obtained two master degrees. But the desire to write
burned within me. By the time I started my PhD program, I
learned to balance academic writing and creative writing by
combining the two to some degree.
My writing consists of short stories, poetry, and fiction
novels. I like to captivate readers by weaving compelling
and colorful accounts of black heritage. My stories are charged
with the immediacy of life, the harshness of poverty, the
inequalities of prejudice, the desperation of hopelessness,
and the hope of love. I frequently use religion and spirituality
as vehicles for my characters to overcome the realities that
impact the African American community. Characters are developed
with sensitivity, roughness, and simplicity through heartbreaking,
uplifting, and humorous story lines that intrigue readers
page after page. I like to use a character’s oppression
to claim the reader’s compassion and sympathy. The voices
of the characters, rich with varying accents and dialects,
give the readers an authentic depiction of southern culture.
My experiences, and reflections on those experiences, are
crucial tools used to authenticate the vernacular of the characters,
to set the pace of the story, to build the plot to convincing
surprises.
God is truly blessing me by allowing me to share what I think
are my ministries, writing and teaching.
I am a member of Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, a member of the
Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies Association
(DAPAUSA), and a member of the
National Association for Public Administration (NASPA).
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