Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Ben Kingsley is best known for his Academy Award–winning role as Mahatma Gandhi. This Ben is a touch less famous, having not acted since his third-grade debut as the Undertaker in The Music Man. An Affrilachian author, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. His first collection, Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, came out from Backwaters Press this year; Colonize Me is forthcoming from Saturnalia in 2019 and Dēmos from Milkweed Editions in 2020.