Santi Elijah Holley

Santi Elijah Holley has reported for more than a decade on the intersec­tion of culture, music, race, religion, and politics. His work has appeared in numerous national and inter­national outlets, including The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Atlantic, National Geographic, NPR, The New Republic, The Economist, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Holley is the recipient of grants from PEN America and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, and he was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship for nonfiction. His previous book An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created was a New York Times Editors' Choice, an Amazon Editors' Pick for Best History, an NPR selection for the ""Books We Love,"" a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Ann M. Sperber Book Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. He lives in Portland.