Brontez Purnell
Clip: Season 1 | 6m 46s | Video has closed captioning.
Award winning author, choreographer, musician, and performance artist, Brontez channels his smalltown Alabama upbringing throughout all of his work. In 2018 he won the Whiting Award in fiction for Since I Laid My Burden Down, a uniquely Southern coming of age novel written with candor, affection, and humor.
Aired: 06/28/19
