Author/Editor: Uncovering the Narratives of Free Black Communities in Africaville

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  Jeffrey Colvin

  Jeffrey Colvin

  Jeffrey Colvin served in the Marine Corps and worked as a congressional aide and nonprofit manager before embarking on a writing career. His reviews, essays and short fiction reflecting his interest in history have been published in literary magazines and other venues. He graduated from the US Naval Academy, Harvard University and Columbia University from which he received an MFA in fiction. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and an assistant editor at Narrative magazine.

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  Patrik Henry Bass

  Patrik Henry Bass

  Patrik Henry Bass joined HarperCollins as a senior editor in June 2018. For nearly two decades he was a part of ESSENCE’s editorial team first as books editor and for his last five years as Editorial Projects Director. Bass was also a member of the magazine’s senior features team, where he worked with a range of writers from Maya Angelou, Bebe Moore Campbell, and Terry McMillan to Pulitzer Prize winners Isabel Wilkerson, Leonard Pitts, Jr., and Robin Givhan.

  Bass has written and edited for numerous publications including the New York Times, Paris Review, and the Washington Post. He is co-author of In Our Own Image: Treasured African-American Traditions, Journeys and Icons (Running Press, 2001) and wrote Like A Mighty Stream: The March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Running Press, 2002), and The Zero Degree Zombie Zone (Scholastic), his first children’s book. He is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School.