Malcolm Gay
Malcolm Gay is an arts reporter for The Boston Globe, where he covers visual and performing arts. He previously worked as a contributing writer at The New York Times and the critic-at-large for Riverfront Times, where he reviewed visual and performing arts. His writing has also appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, and TIME, among other publications.
Named an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 2013, he has received numerous national journalism awards, including top honors from the James Beard Foundation, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Gay studied Philosophy and Art at The Colorado College, later earning an MJ from the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied narrative non-fiction. The Brain Electric, which details the race among top neuroscientists to merge the mind with machines, is his first book.