Diane Abu-Jaber
Meena Alexander
Robert Antoni
Wayne Armond
Russell Banks
Amiri Baraka
Eddie Baugh
Roger Bonair-Agard
Dionne Brand
Yvonne Brewster
Alwin Bully
Daniel Chavarría
Staceyann Chin
George Elliott Clarke
Oliver Clarke
Manthia Diawara
Mark Doty
Fae Ellington
Steve Golding
Francisco Goldman
Perry Henzell
Joan Andrea Hutchinson
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Niki Johnson
Konrad Kirlew
Li-Young Lee
Miles Marshall Lewis
Andrea Levy
Mbala
Mutabaruka
Krist Novoselic
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Ernie Ranglin
Lauren Saunders
Miles Marshall Lewis
Miles Marshall Lewis was born in the Bronx in 1970. During the late 1990s, he was the Music Editor of Vibe, the Deputy Editor of XXL, and the Literary Editor of Russell Simmons’s Oneworld. His essays and criticism have appeared in several publications including the Nation, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender and The Source.

Mr. Lewis currently resides in Paris, France. A graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in Sociology, he also studied at the Fordham University School of Law. He is completing a forthcoming book on Sly and the Family Stone entitled There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Continuum Books, 2006) as well as a novel. Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises is his first book.

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