“Lisa Kingstone gives us the tools to navigate this thorny area across both recent history and contemporary culture. It is a forensically crafted masterclass of clarity.”

Lisa Simone Kingstone — Author and Essayist

Writing about mortality, race, identity and the subjects we avoid.

Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, featured on BBC Radio 4. A 2025 Rockower Award recipient for excellence in personal essay, she has recently completed a manuscript of linked essays, Exit, Stage Left, that explores how the living wrestle with dying. A retired literature professor from King’s College London, her work has appeared in Psyche and Lilith, among others.