Times Six: On Black Life and the Horizon of Possibility
Kiese Laymon and Andrew Elias Colarusso · 03/14/15 12:00PMFew 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."