Edward Austin Hall is a poet and journalist. His writings about comics and comics creators have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. His poetry has appeared in Catalyst and Eyedrum Periodically. He serves on the programming committee for the AJC Decatur Book Festival and ran a longtime monthly literary salon called Writers Exchange. Hall is a graduate of Tulane University. He co-edited the 2013 anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. His first novel is titled Dread Isle.