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About The Author

G. Winston James is a Jamaican-born poet, short fiction writer, essayist and editor. A former fellow of the Millay Colony for the Arts, he holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and is the author of the poetry collection The Damaged Good: Poems Around Love and the Lambda Literary Award finalist collection Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road. His poetry also appears in numerous anthologies and publications, including Black Ivy: A Literary and Visual Arts Magazine; Bloom Magazine: Queer Fiction, Art, Poetry and More; Kuumba: A Poetry Journal for Black People in the Life; Milking Black Bull: 11 Black Gay Poets; The Nubian Gallery; Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art; and the Lambda Literary Award winning anthologies, Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present; Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS, and The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets.