David Mura is a memoirist, essayist, novelist, poet, critic, playwright and performance artist. Mura’s latest book is The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives (U. of MN Press), a collection of essays contrasting historical and fiction narratives by white Americans and African Americans, appearing Jan. 2023. His last book centered on creative writing and race, A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing (2018, University of Georgia Press). With essayist Carolyn Holbrook, Mura is co-editor of an anthology of Minnesota BIPOC writers, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (2021, U. of MN Press).