Left of Black S8:E6: Daniel José Older -- from EMS Worker to Writing Afro-Latino Identity into the Fantasy Genre

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with fantasy novelist Daniel José Older talk his interests in Fantasy Fiction, how bureaucracies influenced his writing, and the challenge of diversity in the publishing industry. Older is the author of Battle Hill Bolero (an epic war novel set in Brooklyn), from the Urban Fantasy series the Bone Street Rumba and the Young Adult fantasy series Shadowshaper. 


Left of Black is hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced by Catherine Angst of the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in collaboration with the Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) and the Duke Council on Race + Ethnicity (DCORE). 
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