Patrick A. Howell is an award-winning banker, business leader, entrepreneur, and writer. His first work was published with the UC Berkeley African American Literary Review and Quarterly Black Book Review. At Cal Berkeley, he co-founded Diatribe — a People of Color News Collective. Howell, is a frequent contributing writer to the Huffington Post, Tishman Review’s Craft Talk series, Into the Void, and is a Good Men Project Blue Box Columnist. He has enjoyed the opportunity to interview Nnedi Okorafor, Ishmael Reed, and Nikki Giovanni. He has been cited in national platforms as equities.com, NBC BLK, Opportunist Magazine, and The Grio. Howell’s integrated book of poetry-design, Yes, We Be, was published by Jacar Press in February of 2018 and debuted at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. This summer he graduated the Leopardi Writer's Conference in Recanati Italy to complete work on Quarter 'til Judgement Day, a coming-of-age experimental fiction work. A creative nonfiction anthology titled Dispatches from the Vanguard will be published later in 2019.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Hold Sacred Our Humanity: A Conversation with Abiodun Oyewole
The poet discusses his new collection, the George Floyd protests, and the holiness of trees....
Here’s to Life with Tori Reid, Episode 02: Phylicia Rashad - What Makes Phylicia, Phylicia?
A conversation with actress Phylicia Rashad......
Tori Reid Talks to the Iconic Nikki Giovanni
Tori Reid, Hollywood insider and producer, visits with poet Nikki Giovanni to discuss her life and thoughts on the future, humanity, ...
Griot Jali: California’s First Poet Laureate, Quincy Troupe, Returns to His Old Stomping Ground
Patrick Howell interviews author Quincy Troupe about Harlem, growing up in St. Louis, and what's next....
Nikki Giovanni: In Her Revolutionary Dream
Patrick A. Howell interviews poet Nikki Giovanni....
