Works by
Shay Youngblood
(Painter, Writer)

Fiction

• Soul Kiss (1997)
  "Soul Kiss, an eloquent first novel from well-known African-American playwright Shay Youngblood, opens as seven-year-old Mariah Kim Santos is unceremoniously and suddenly deposited by her mother to live with two maiden aunts in rural Georgia. The only parting words from Mama are "Mama loves you." Mariah is then directed to wait for her mother's return. Years pass and Mariah's mother doesn't come back. Mariah forms a unique and loving relationship with her surrogate parents. As she passes into womanhood, Mariah feels emotionally complete only with other women; when she learns for the first time about the existence of her father, the central questions of her familial and sexual identities rise, and she seeks out that father, a painter living in Los Angeles. There she makes the disorienting simultaneous discovery of new areas of explosive erotic passion and family love." -- Amazon.com

• Black Girl in Paris
  In her critically acclaimed new novel, Shay Youngblood chronicles the Parisian odyssey of a young African- American woman retracing the footsteps of the literary legends who inspired her.

Painting

• For information on Shay Youngblood's painting, click  here.

Plays

• Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery (1988)

• Communism Killed My Dog (1991)

• Square Blues (1992)

• Talking Bones (1992)

• Amazing Grace (1995) with Mary Hoffman

• There are Many Houses in My Tribe (1995)
  A ten minute prelude

Short Stories

• The Big Mama Stories (1989)

See also:

• Black Theatre:  Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora (2002), Gus Edwards, Paul Carter Harrison, and  Victor Leo Walker II, eds.
  See  "Conjuring as Radical Re/membering in the Works of Shay Youngblood" by Joni L. Jones