A freelance copywriter and editor, Colin Channer has had his work published in Essence, Millimeter, Ebony Man, Black Enterprise, and Billboard on subjects ranging from popular music to economics and media technology. He is the author of the short stories "The Ballad of the Sad Chanteuse  and "Black Boy, Brown Girl, Brownstones,  included in the anthology Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.