A multi-platform creator of content
at the intersection of culture,
class and identity.

Steve Majors is the author of Man Made: In Search of Dads, Daddies, Father Figures and Fatherhood; the memoir, High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir; and the forthcoming graphic novel Light Bright.  His writing explores issues of race, class, culture and identity and his personal essays have been published in national outlets including Electric Lit, the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN.com, NBC Think. Steve has recently completed his first full-length play, American Gothik.

A multi-platform creator of content
at the intersection of culture,
class and identity.

Steve Majors is the author of Man Made: In Search of Dads, Daddies, Father Figures and Fatherhood; the memoir, High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir; and the forthcoming graphic novel Light Bright.  His writing explores issues of race, class, culture and identity and his personal essays have been published in national outlets including Electric Lit, the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN.com, NBC Think. Steve has recently completed his first full-length play, American Gothik.

“Through unflinching, honest reflection, [Majors] challenges conventional ideas of manhood and family without lecture.”

―Washington City Paper

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“With moving, honest, and incisive prose, Majors unravels his
lifelong search for father figures, family, and allies, as he comes of age
as a gay, Gen X, multiracial Black man—and eventually becomes
a father himself—in a wounded and closeted world.”

—Anne Liu Kellor, author of Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, on Man Made

“A quest of self-discovery told with aching tenderness and layered insights, Majors’s Man Made captivates while providing context for a rethink of one’s own notions of maleness.”

—Jeffrey Dale Lofton, author of Red Clay Suzie

“Steve Majors writes from experience with a clear eye and a steady hand. I trust him: he is blunt about his mistakes and open about his loves. This book is a glorious reminder that life has no instruction manual—you figure it out as you go.”

—James Whorton Jr., author of Angela Sloan, on Man Made

“A brave reckoning with multiple questions of identity, class, family, race, and other thorny issues. A definitively modern writer wrestles with haunting questions from his family’s hidden past.” 

—Kirkus Reviews on High Yella

“In a memoir as gripping and relevant as The Color of Water, Majors bares himself and his family with jaw-dropping honesty. Reading like a page-turning novel, High Yella unflinchingly examines the impact of systemic racism, sexism, poverty, and homophobia on one American family.” 

—David Santos Donaldson, author of the award-winning Greenland on High Yella

“This delicately crafted memoir is a testament to the unquantifiable things that connect family – not cells and DNA, but shared experiences and unconditional love.” 

—Debbie Bernstein Holinstat, author of Survivors Club on High Yella

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“A brave reckoning with multiple questions of identity, class, family, race, and other thorny issues.
A definitively modern writer wrestles with haunting questions from his family’s hidden past.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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