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    Imani Josey Wants to Tell Black Girls’ Stories

    by Karis Rogerson Aug 09, 2017 3 minutes

    Back in 1996, Imani Josey wrote a 60-page draft of a story she called “The Secret Cave,” about three girls who travel to an alternate universe and discover they are fairie princesses. Josey now cites this the first draft of The Blazing Star, a young adult fantasy novel about three black girls who time-travel to ancient Egypt that she self-published last fall.

    For years after that draft, though, Josey didn’t write publicly.

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