Kimberly Mack is Associate Professor of African American literature and culture at the University of Toledo. She is the author of Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White(University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Award. Kimberly is writing a new book, tentatively titled The Untold History of American Rock Criticism(under contract with Bloomsbury Academic), about the BIPoC and white women writers who helped develop American rock criticism and journalism during the 1960s and 1970s. For this project, she is the recipient of a senior scholar research grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Charles Hamm Fellowship from the Society for American Music. Another book, Living Colour’s Time’s Up, part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 book series, will be published in 2023. She is also a music writer and memoirist whose work has appeared in Longreads, No Depression, Relix, Music Connection, PopMatters, and Hot Press.