Taylor Antrim is an editor at ForbesLife and a regular contributor to the New York Times and to Vogue. His journalism has appeared in Esquire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Village Voice, and other publications, and his stories have won prizes from Black Warrior Review, Terminus Magazine and Phoebe. A graduate of Stanford and of Oxford, he earned his MFA from Virginia, where he held the Poe-Faulkner Fellowship and won the Balch Short Story Prize. His first novel, The Headmaster Ritual, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in July. See more about him at www.taylorantrim.com.
Irvin Weathersby
Irvin Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor of literature and creative writing from New Orleans. He has published three biographies in Notable Black American Men,