KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE is the author of the bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), was hailed as “essential reading” by the Globe and Mail. A finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Trillium Book Award, Al-Solaylee won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. He teaches journalism and literary nonfiction at Ryerson University. (ONTARIO)