Clifford Thompson is the author of Signifying Nothing: A Novel (2009); Love for Sale and Other Essays (2013); Twin of Blackness: A Memoir (2015); and What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (forthcoming this November). Winner of a 2013 Whiting Award, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Brooklyn. (updated 09/2019)