Magazine. Literary Nonfiction. Photography. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT is an international journal of literary nonfiction committed to publishing high-quality literary nonfiction from the world of letters. VOLUME VI includes stories from Mali to Michigan, Cambodia to the Santa Clarita Valley, Lebanon to rural Virginia. Though these tales span the globe, they speak as much to what we have in common as they do to what we still have to learn from each other. Contributors include Maya Haddad, Leah Bailey, Rajasvini Bhansali, Krystal Vasquez, and James Randolph Jordan. Photographs by Raul Guerrero.

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

Michael Datcher is the author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times best-seller Raising Fences. Datcher's latest play, Silence, was commissioned by and opened at the Getty Museum. He has appeared on both news programs' Nightline and Dateline as an analyst and is a frequent commentator on BBC Radio. He is co-host of the weekly public affairs news magazine Beautiful Struggle on 90.7 FM KPFK. Datcher's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, The Source, Ladies Home Journal, Vibe among many other publications. His poetry is widely anthologized. He has curated and/or presented his work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and other art institutions. He is editor of the new national journal of literary nonfiction THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT. Datcher teaches poetry, literary nonfiction and journalism at Loyola.