G Winston JamesG. Winston James is a Jamaican-born poet, author, essayist and editor. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. James is the author of the Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist collection >Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories, The Damaged Good: Poems Around Love, and the Lambda Literary Award finalist collection Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road. His essays appear in the anthologies For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough, and Love, Christopher Street: Reflections of Gay New York. James is co-editor of the anthology Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing, and the Lambda Literary Award finalist collection SPIRITED: AFFIRMING THE SOUL AND BLACK GAY/LESBIAN IDENTITY. He recently wrote the introduction to American photographer Thomas Roma's book of portraits, In the Vale of Cashmere (powerHouse, 2015).

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