Aaliyah Bilal ’04 has been named a 2023 National Book Awards finalist. Bilal, who earned a degree in African American Studies and Spanish, was nominated in the fiction category for the debut short story collection "Temple Folk" (Simon Schuster, July 2023). National Book Awards winners will be announced on November 15. Read more about Bilal at the link in bio. • • • • • • • • • #Oberlin #OberlinCollege #Fiction #Novelist #NationalBookAward #ShortStory #StoryCollection #Author #Writer #Finalist