Leta McCullough Seletsky

Leta McCollough Seletzky is a National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow. A litigator turned essayist and memoirist, her work appears in The Atlantic, the New York Times, TheGrio, O, The Oprah Magazine, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and a JD from the George Washington University Law School. She grew up in Memphis and now lives in Walnut Creek. Her debut is The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.