Danny Collum

Background

About Danny Collum

Danny Duncan Collum is the author of four books, including the novel, White Boy (Apprentice House). He recently retired as a professor of English and journalism at Kentucky State University in Frankfort and currently is an adjunct professor of English in the Prison Education Program at Wilmington College. Collum is also a working journalist and free-lance writer frequently contributing to U.S. Catholic and Sojourners, both national monthly magazines. In addition, his articles and essays have also appeared in Utne, Rock & Rap Confidential, Perfect Sound Forever, various other periodicals and the anthology, Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. In addition to his novel, Collum's nonfiction books include: Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South (Paulist Press), Rising to Common Ground (Sowers Books) and Black and White Together (Orbis Books). He is editor of African Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Macmillan).