Antonio Michael Downing is the author of the acclaimed memoir Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming (shortlisted for the 2021 Speaker’s Book Award and longlisted for the Toronto Book Award), and the children’s picture book, Stars in My Crown. He writes and performs music as John Orpheus. Downing is the current host of CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter, where he discusses books with authors and columnists. Black Cherokee is his first novel.
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