ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Nicholas Powers has reported from 9/11 New York, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the Sean Bell anti-police brutality protests, the Darfur genocide and earthquake struck Haiti, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Black Lives Matters marches and Burning Man.

Black Psychedelic Revolution is his fifth book and first with North Atlantic Books. His dissertation, The Undertow of Reason: Redefining the Sublime Through the Middle Passage was published by the Graduate Center. His poetry book, Theater of War and literary journalism, The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street were published by Upset Press. Along with a political vampire novel, Thirst.