Leta Seletzky

Leta McCollough Seletzky is Director of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. A National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow, she is the author of The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a Library Journal Best Book of 2023, BookPage Best Book of 2023, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction, and finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation 2024 Legacy Award for Memoir Nonfiction. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, The Washington Monthly, and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.