DA’SHAWN MOSLEY is a communications professional — an editor and journalist in the Washington, D.C., metro area whose beats include the arts, LGBTQ+ issues, race, regulation of the tobacco industry, and U.S. politics.
He is also a fiction writer, poet, memoirist, and critic. His fiction earned him the 2019 A Suite of One’s Own: A Writer’s Residency, judged by Kiese Laymon. His nonfiction earned him designation as a 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, awarded by President Obama. His work has appeared in Sojourners, Religion News Service, America magazine, The Adroit Journal, Assignment magazine, and an exhibit of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Da’Shawn earned a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Chicago, studied creative writing at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, and was featured in the PBS documentary Becoming an Artist.
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