Jarrett Neal's first book, What Color Is Your Hoodie?: Essays on Black Gay Identity, published by Chelsea Station Editions, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. A graduate of Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Chicago Review of Books, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Lambda Literary, The Write Launch, Lit Break, Newcity and many other periodicals. He lives in Oak Park, IL
