Dewesse is a W.E.B Dubois Honor Graduate in English from Jackson State University has a Master's in English with a focus on African-American literature from Tennessee State University. He has three years of experience teaching English on the secondary level, and has taught Sophomore American Literature on the collegiate level as a graduate-assistant to the chair of English department at Tennessee State University. He has been featured in The BASU Source, Nashville's leading Black LGBT Publication, Examiner.com Nashville, the Jackson Advocate newspaper in Jackson, MS, and was awarded iUniverse's prestigious "Editor’s Choice" honor for his debut novel, To Be Loved: Because it Was Forbidden. Among other honors, he was being selected to be a reader at the 2011 UNC Queer Studies Conference in April, and his poetry—“It Must Be Love” and “Caged Bird”—was also selected, during his matriculation at Jackson State University, to be published in Black Magnolias, a literary publication in Mississippi. Dewesse is originally from Vicksburg, Miss, and he currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his partner of five years.  

Iuniverse Editor's Choice for [To Be Loved: Because it Was Forbidden]