Peter J. Harris, 2018 Los Angeles COLA Fellow in literary arts, Fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC, is also the author of Bless the Ashes, poetry (Tia Chucha Press), winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award; andThe Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My ‘Unalienable Right,’ personal essays, winner of a 2015 American Book Award.