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 novels Since I Laid My Burden Down and 100 Boyfriends. He is the recipient of a 2022 award from the Rauschenberg Foundation for risk-taking in art, and 2018 Whiting Award for Fiction, as well as named one of ‘32 Black Male Writers for Our Time’ by T: New York Times Style Magazine. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers.
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