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(February 2015) Mishna Wolff is an American writer and humorist. Her 2009 memoir I'm Down focused on childhood and race. [1] Early life. Wolff grew up in Seattle, Washington. When her parents divorced, with a white father who expected her to integrate into the black community the way he had.
I'm Down is a memoir by the American author Mishna Wolff, originally published by St. Martin's Press in 2009. In the book, she relates her experience of being white while growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and having a different financial situation and culture than the other white children at her gifted student public ...
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She is a contributor to NPR, an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the Sundance Episodic Lab, and a recent recipient of the Indian Paintbrush fellowship and the Ubisoft Women's Fellowship. Her feature adaptation of Ubisoft’s Werewolves Within is coming to a theater near you in June 2021!
Jun 22, 2010 · 11-Minute Listen. Playlist. Guest Host Tony Cox talks with Mishna Wolff about her memoir I'm Down. It's the story of her childhood in a poor, all black neighborhood in urban Seattle during the...
Jul 21, 2010 · Today we feature Mishna Wolff, author of "I'm Down," in which she recounts being raised by her Caucasian father who was so ingrained in the family's urban Seattle neighborhood, that he...
Jun 23, 2009 · "I'm Down" is Mishna Wolff's memoir of growing up in the Central District and South End in 1970s-'80s Seattle, in a mostly black neighborhood with a father who was white but longed to be black....
May 26, 2009 · July 27, 2022. A few weeks ago, I finished Mishna Wolff's 2009 memoir I'm Down. What a funny and bittersweet tale of family, identity, and acceptance! A white girl raised in a poor black neighborhood by a black-identified white father, Wolff is bewildered, and she craves approval and normalcy.