Illinois Authors

A.D. Carson

Born: 1979 in Decatur, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Carson was born in Decatur and has lived all over the state from Joliet to Sandusky. He attended at least 10 different public schools from elementary through high school, ultimately graduating from Stephen Decatur High in 1997. He attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston as a recipient of the Golden Apple Scholarship from 1997-1999, when he left to pursue a music career. In 2002 he enrolled at Millikin University, graduating in 2004. He taught at Springfield High School and served as a Writer-In-Residence for ''Quiddity International Literary Journal and National Public Radio Program'' at Benedictine University in Springfield.

Biography: A.D. Carson is an educator, author, and performance artist. He is an Associate Professor of Hip-Hop and a Shannon Center Fellow for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. He is from Decatur, Illinois. His work as a performance artist, educator, writer, and commentator deals with issues of race, place, history, literature, hip-hop, rhetorics & performance. He has written essays and music for Rolling Stone, Washington Post, SPIN, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, NPR’s Code Switch, Bleacher Report, Scalawag, and a number of other outlets.

• Grace Patton Conant Award for Literary Creation

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Young adult readers

E-Mail: aydeethegreat@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aydeethegreat?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Web: https://aydeethegreat.com/

Selected Titles

	Cold: A Multi-Media Novel ISBN: 1932278729 OCLC: 726821566 Mayhaven Pub., Mahomet, IL : 2011. A coming-of-age novel that draws on the author's prose, poetry, and hip-hop lyrics.
	The City ISBN: 1932278915 OCLC: 828889144 Mayhaven Pub., Inc., Mahomet, IL : 2012. Carson's first collection-carefully crafted poems, lyrics, and narratives that mirror the realities of the cities life. The City offers glimpses of hope in places where it's most needed and seldom seen.