This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
About
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s debut book, Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, selected by Bob Hicok, was published by Backwaters Press in fall 2018. His work has appeared in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. A member of the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans, Kingsley is currently the Tickner Writing Fellow at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland.