Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir – A Raw Coming-of-Age Story of Black Boyhood and Queer Identity

by Brian Broome, Yona Harvey (Introduction)

"A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction"--

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, LGBT, Audiobook, Queer, Race, Biography Memoir

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 18, 2021

About the author

Brian Broome, a poet and screenwriter, is K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University's Martin Luther King Writing Awards. He also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. He lives in Pittsburgh.