Gary Edward Holcomb is a professor of African American studies at Ohio University. He is the author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance (University Press of Florida, 2007), co-editor with William J. Maxwell of McKay’s circa 1929–33 novel Romance in Marseille (Penguin Classics, 2020), and co-editor with Brooks E. Hefner of Claude McKay: The Letters in Exile, forthcoming from Yale University Press in Spring 2025.

Gary Edward Holcomb

Zeal, Wit, and Fury: The Queer Black Modernism of Claude McKay

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Gary Edward Holcomb is a professor of African American studies at Ohio University. He is the author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance (University Press of Florida, 2007), co-editor with William J. Maxwell of McKay’s circa 1929–33 novel Romance in Marseille (Penguin Classics, 2020), and co-editor with Brooks E. Hefner of Claude McKay: The Letters in Exile, forthcoming from Yale University Press in Spring 2025.