Mack CurryDr. Mack Curry IV was born and raised in Bowie, Maryland. He started writing poetry at age 11, and he still enjoys writing poetry twenty years later. Mack received his Bachelors in English from Hampton University in 2013. He then received his Master f Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University in 2016, where he completed a poetry thesis titled Sex, Love, and Black Lives. Mack also has Doctorate in Philosophy with a focus in Rhetoric and Composition from Georgia State University in 2020. His specializations are poetry, rhetoric and composition, and African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and he currently serves as a Lecturer of English at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, where he teaches various classes in composition, poetry writing, and literature. Read More Read Less