Caleb Gayle

Caleb J. Gayle is the author of a forthcoming book from Riverhead Books, which examines the true story of Cow Tom, a former Black chief of the Creek Nation, and offers a narrative account of how many Black Native Americans, including Cow Tom’s descendants, were divided and marginalized by white supremacy in America.

Gayle is a former U.S. News fellow at the Guardian, as well as a former fellow at the New America Foundation and Demos. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Three Penny Review, the Harvard Review, Pacific Standard, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Root, and the Daily Beast, among others.

Gayle is the 2021 winner of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting award and is writing about hidden lives in the forgotten Black communities of middle America.