Scott Poulson-Bryant

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Scott Poulson-Bryant
Born
United States
Occupation(s)Music critic, writer, journalist, academic

Scott Poulson-Bryant is an American journalist and author.

Doubleday Books in 2006) and a novel called The VIPs.[2][3]

Early life and education

Poulson-Bryant was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from

American Studies at Harvard University and was a tutor in Kirkland House.[4] He has joined the faculty of Fordham University
and will start teaching fall 2016.

Career

Most notable for covering trends in urban youth and popular culture, Poulson-Bryant's 1988 Village Voice cover story about

Puff Daddy profile also won the Best Feature Writing award from New York chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. Before helping to launch VIBE, he was a staff writer at SPIN, and from 2006–2008, he was editorial director of GIANT
Magazine.

Poulson-Bryant has profiled and written cover stories on such media notables as

His short stories and articles have been anthologized in And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years, Kevin Powell's Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris' GUMBO, and Rachel Kramer Bussell's Best Sex Writing 2008.

In 2008–09, he taught journalism at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Works

(2002) What's Your Hi-Fi Q: 30 Years of Black Music Trivia (with Smokey Fontaine)
(2006) HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
(2010) The VIPs (a novel)

References

  1. . Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  2. ^ Brown Daily Herald article
  3. ^ Poulson-Bryant, Scott. The VIPs. New York: Broadway, 2011. Google Books. Web.
  4. ^ Academia.edu profile
  5. Daily News
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