2" he details growing up in the American South as a "The Special Child" and how the racial tensions and religious fervor of his home town animate his writing today.
His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, GQ, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Grand Street, Shenandoah, The Quarterly, Equator, and Antaeus.
His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Spin, Esquire, George, Detour, Vogue, The Oxford American, and The Southern Review, and he has been a correspondent for the BBC.
He wrote and produced on several television series, such as Chicago Hope, The Man in the High Castle, Fear the Walking Dead and Hell on Wheels.
He co-created and wrote the Showtime limited series, The Good Lord Bird, which starred Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown.