Author Archives: Micah McCrary

Micah McCrary

Micah McCrary is a contributor to Bookslut. His essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in Brevity, the Los Angeles Review of Books, MAKE, Third Coast, and Midwestern Gothic, among other publications. He co-edits con•text, is a doctoral student in English at Ohio University, and holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. His manuscript, Island in the City, was a finalist in the Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2015 Essay Collection Competition.

Stranger on the Seine

By Micah McCrary | Published: February 3, 2016
Photo by Micah McCrary

Normally my being black makes my being American complicated, but in Paris I found myself perhaps saved by my nationality, by a particular foreignness, with my blackness possibly somewhat overlooked.

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Oreo

By Micah McCrary | Published: March 11, 2014
Normal, IL movie theater

“There will be people who’ll cross the street to avoid you because you’re black,” my mother would tell me when I was younger, in every conversation or argument about race we ever had.

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