black-womanhood

Times Six: On Black Life and the Horizon of Possibility

Kiese Laymon and Andrew Elias Colarusso · 03/14/15 12:00PM

Few young creative writers in our world write so curiously and honestly out of our varied black American literary tradition as Andrew Elias Colarusso. The biracial son of an Afro-Puerto Rican mother and an Italian American father; Andrew writes, "Because I did and do have a loving relationship with my (white) biological father I cannot dismiss the whiteness he has come to represent without dismissing a part of who I am."