Michael Datcher

Michael Datcher is the author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller RAISING FENCES -- a TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB Book of the Month pick.  The film rights were optioned by actor Will Smith’s Overbrook Productions, who hired Datcher to write the screenplay.  He is co-editor of TOUGH LOVE: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur. 

Datcher’s latest play SILENCE was commissioned by and premiered 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, LA Times, Baltimore Sun, The Source, Ladies Home Journal, Vibe among many other publications.  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.

Datcher is the Director of Literary Programs at the World Stage Writer’s Workshop in Leimert Park.  He is Editor of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction.  Datcher is a professor of English at Loyola Marymount University.