Asali Solomon is an American professor, author, and novelist.
She grew up in West Philadelphia, and attended Henry C. Lea Elementary, The Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Central High School.
Solomon attended Barnard College as an undergraduate, and received a Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley.
[2] Before working at Haverford, she was affiliated with Washington and Lee University and Trinity College.
[4][5] Days of Afrekete appeared in 2021; loosely analogous to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway with references to Audre Lorde's Zami, it too received favorable reviews.