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Brontez Purnell

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Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist. He is the author of a graphic novel, a novella, a children's book, and the novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. The recipient of a 2018 Whiting Writers' Award for Fiction and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award, he was named one of the thirty-two Black Male Writers of Our Time by T: The New York Times Style Magazine in 2018. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers, a cofounder of the experimental dance group the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, the creator of the renowned cult zine Fag School, and the director of several short films, music videos, and the documentary Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock. Born in Triana, Alabama, he's lived in Oakland, California, for more than a decade.

Brontez Purnell Books

No Ordinary Love book cover

No Ordinary Love

Roxane Gay
Ten Bridges I've Burnt book cover

Ten Bridges I've Burnt

Brontez Purnell
I Could Not Believe It book cover

I Could Not Believe It

Sean DeLear
100 Boyfriends book cover

100 Boyfriends

Brontez Purnell
Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger book cover

Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger

Brontez Purnell
Since I Laid My Burden Down book cover

Since I Laid My Burden Down

Brontez Purnell
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