Adarro Minton has studied under authors Joe Cardillo, Guggenheim winner Lynne Tillman and MacArthur Award winner Lydia Davis. He has been published in Other:______, Origami Condom, Flashquake, Poetic Voices, Threads, The Culture Star Reader, and was a top-ten finalist in the Writer's Digest 71st Annual Short Story Contest. He has studied at the prestigious New York State Writers Institute, and has been nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His first book,Gay,Black,Crippled,Fat! A collection of short fiction, was published in June 2006.