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D. Watkins is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Beast Side, The Cook Up, Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised, and We Speak for Ourselves—which was Enoch Pratt Free Library’s 2020 One Book Baltimore selection. His newest book, Black Boy Smile, was released in May.

Watkins is Editor-at-Large for Salon. He is a writer on the HBO mini-series We Own This City and hosts the show’s companion podcast. Additionally, he was featured in the HBO documentary, The Slow Hustle. His work has been published in the New York Times, Esquire, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other publications.

Watkins is a college lecturer at the University of Baltimore, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing. He also holds a Master of Education degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Some of Watkins' awards include the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award, the BMe Genius Grant for Dynamic Black Leaders, the City Lit Dambach Award for Service to the Literary Arts, the Maryland Library Association’s William Wilson Maryland Author Award, and Ford’s Men of Courage Award for Black Male Storytellers. He was also a finalist for a 2016 Hurston Wright Legacy Award, and The Cook Up was a 2017 Books for a Better Life finalist.

He lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife and daughter.
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    • The Cook Up

    • A Crack Rock Memoir
    • Written by: D. Watkins
    • Narrated by: D. Watkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-11
    • Language: English
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    • The Beast Side

    • Living (and Dying) While Black in America
    • Written by: D. Watkins
    • Narrated by: Brandon Rubin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2015-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating

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