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Irvin Weathersby Jr.

Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His work has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College and 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. In Open Contempt is his first book.