KiesELaymon.com
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Cold Drank » Kiese Laymon
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Excerpted from the website:
- About
- 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 in 1998. He earned an MFA from Indiana University in 2003 and is the author of the forthcoming novels My Name is City (Penguin/Putnam) and All Things Considered and a book of essays On Parole: Uncle Jimmy, Obama, Hip Hop (Niggas) and Me — The Mixtape. Laymon has written essays and stories for numerous publications including Longman’s Hip Hop Reader and the journal, “Politics and Culture”. Laymon is currently an Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing and Africana Studies at Vassar College.
