Miles Marshall Lewis

Miles Marshall Lewis is a recognized pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist, with a B.A. degree in sociology from Morehouse College. He is the author of the essay collection Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises, concerning coming of age in the Bronx under the aegis of hip-hop culture at its genesis. He is also the series editor and founder of Bronx Biannual, an urbane urban literary journal of fiction and essays, and author of There's a Riot Goin' On, a book on the making of the seminal 1971 Sly and the Family Stone album of the same name. During the past 20 years, he has written for GQ, The New York Times, Ebony, NPR, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Believer, Essence, and many other publications. He served as the digital arts and culture editor of Ebony, music editor of Vibe, deputy editor of XXL, literary editor of Russell Simmons's Oneworld, deputy editor of BET.com, and a contributing writer for The Source during the 1990s. His interview with the late Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson is anthologized in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers alongside Joan Didion, Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, and his fiction has been published in Bronx Noir, Wanderlust, Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, Oneworld, Rap Pages, and Uptown. Follow MML all over social media @MMLunlimited, and www.MMLunlimited.com.