Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His writing has been featured in Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, Ebony, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. He holds an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He teaches at Queensborough Community College and at City College of New York in the MFA in creative writing program. |