Margo Jefferson

The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland (Bolinda Publishing), received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson (Granta Books) and Constructing a Nervous System (Granta Books) and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.