Pre-order thru March 27, 2026. Hardcover edition. Memoir by Black Arts Movement icon and American Book Award winner Judy Juanita. California Fever Dream chronicles Juanita's 60 years in literature and activism. Judy Juanita is an award-winning poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist and playwright. At San Francisco State University in the 1960s, Juanita joined fellow student protesters to revolutionize American higher education and create the nation’s first Black Studies department. Her work is archived at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Research Center, alongside the work of SNCC activists from the 1960s.