Harlem native Michael A. Gonzales has written cover stories for Vibe, Essence, Code, Latina, Suede, XXL & The Source. His essays have appeared in Rock and Roll is Here to Stay edited by William McKeen (W.W. Norton), The Vibe History of Hip-Hop edited by Alan Light, Men of Color: Fashion, History, Fundamentals edited by Lloyd Boston, Soul (Black Power, Politics and Pleasure) edited by Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green/NYU Press, and Vibe’s Hip-Hop Divas edited by Rob Kenner. Gonzales has published short fiction in Ego Trip, Uptown, Russell Simmons’ OneWorld, Trace, NY Press & Brown Sugar (A Collection of Black Erotica) edited by Carol Taylor. He currently lives in Brooklyn.