He left The Crisis in 2017.Īsim is the author of nonfiction, fiction, children’s and adult’s books, and poetry. Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts hired Asim in 2010 to work as an associate professor of writing, literature, and publishing. From 2008 to 2010, Asim served as a scholar-in-residence in African American Studies and in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and, in 2009, he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in the general nonfiction category. He remained in this role until he became editor-in-chief of the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis, in 2007. The Washington Post Book World was a weekly book section in which Asim wrote, assigned, and edited reviews. when he was hired by the Washington Post to serve as an assistant editor before becoming senior editor of the newspaper’s Book World in 1999. Here, he would take on the additional role of arts editor of the weekend section and, in 1993, he was made book editor. By 1990, he was promoted to senior editor of the magazine where he ran the magazine’s literary section until 1992, when he became a copy editor for the St. In 1988, Asim was hired by the startup African American publication, Take Five magazine, as a contributing writer. He graduated from Southwest High School in 1980, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Author and magazine editor Jabari Asim was born on Augin St.
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