Michael Gonzales

Essayist/short story writer Michael A. Gonzales has written about books for Longreads, Catapult and The Paris Review. Once dubbed “the hip-hop Chester Himes,” his fiction has appeared in The Root, Art Decades Bronx Biannual, Crime Factory, The Darker Mask and Black Pulp. In addition, Gonzales has written about pop culture, visual art and film for The Village Voice, New York, Wax Poetics, HYCIDE, Pitchfork, Newark Bound and Vibe. Upcoming projects includes work in Sticking it to the Man: Revolution and Counter Culture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950-1980 edited Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, Black Pulp II edited by Gary Phillips and Tommy Hancock, and Gimme the Loot edited by Gabino Iglesias. ‏