Fred Moten is from Las Vegas, Arkansas. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney), The Feel Trio and The Little Edges. A new poetry collection, The Service Porch (Letter Machine Editions) and a new collection of essays, consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press) will appear in 2016. Moten teaches at the University of California, Riverside and lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Laura Harris, and their kids, Julian and Lorenzo.