About

G’Ra Asim, a writer and musician, is an assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Asim is the author of Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother, which was named one of Kirkus’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2021. He has served as a writing director at the African American Policy Forum and a graduate teaching fellow in Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. Asim’s next book of critical nonfiction, 99 Problems Finding the 1, is forthcoming from Beacon Press. His essays have appeared in Slate, Salon, Guernica, The Baffler, The New Republic and the Boston Globe. When not writing or teaching, he plays in Wiretap Records punk act Baby Got Back Talk, who were named one of Alternative Press’s “17 rising Black alternative bands who are leading the next generation.”