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Walela Nehanda
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Walela Nehanda is an American writer, poet, and cultural worker from Los Angeles. Their debut book, Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir, was published by Kokila in 2024. The book won the 2025 International Literacy Association Young Adult Nonfiction Book Award. Nehanda was included in Out magazine's 2020 Out100 and was selected as a 2024 Disability Futures Fellow.
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