Damon Young is writer, critic, humorist, satirist. His debut memoir, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir In Essays (Ecco/HarperCollins), is a tragicomic exploration of the angsts, anxieties, and absurdities of existing while black in America, and won Barnes & Noble’s 2019 Discover Award. It was also longlisted for the PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and is a Krause Essay Prize nominee. NPR, which named it one of the best books of 2019, called it an “outstanding collection of nonfiction.” Damon is also the co-founder and editor in chief of VerySmartBrothas, coined “the blackest thing that ever happened to the internet” by The Washington Post, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a columnist for GQ. Damon currently resides in Pittsburgh’s Northside, with his wife and two children.”
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