Mara ShalhoupMara Shalhoup is a decorated journalist and a senior editor with Creative Loafing, the preeminent alternative newsweekly serving the South. She started her writing career as a crime reporter at the Macon Telegraph, and has gone o to earn such honors as a Clarion Award, two nominations for a Livingston Award, and recognition from the Atlanta Press Club as the city's Journalist of the Year. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family is her first book. She lives with her husband in Atlanta. Read More Read Less