Left of Black S4:E1 | “Showing Work” with Writer Kiese Laymon

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by writer and Vasser College Professor Kiese Laymon.

Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA from Indiana University and is the author of  Long Division and a collection of essays,  How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in Americaboth published by Agate Bolden. Laymon is a contributing editor at gawker.com. Laymon is currently an Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing and co-director of Africana Studies at Vassar College.

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