Born and raised in the great state of Louisiana, Harlan D. Whatley received his B.A. in English from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, where he wrote articles for View magazine and acted in television commercials with Orlando Jones and O'Neal Compton. He lived and worked in New York City and received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Recently, Whatley completed his M.A. in English from the University of Texas Permian B