<p class="ecxmsonormal"><strong>Chad Goller-Sojourner is</strong> a Seattle-based writer, storyteller, solo-performer and recipient of a distinguished Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. Most recently he was awarded both a 2011 Artist Trust Grant and Creative Artist Residency to further develop his sophomore solo show: <em>Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Honorary Whiteness</em>. In 2009 he launched a national college tour of his groundbreaking and crushingly honest inaugural solo show entitled: <em>Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, </em>which debuted July 2008 and was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts</p> <p class="ecxmsonormal">Additional works include an evening-length play entitled: <em>The Bus Stop,<strong> </strong></em>which culminated in a<strong><em> </em></strong>July 2010, Staged Reading and publishing a chapbook entitled <em>Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay and Adopted by White Folks A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment</em> which has been described as poignant, chilling and prophetic. When not waiting by the phone for Cicely Tyson or Ryan Reynolds, Chad continues to write, teach, perform and bake though often not in that order. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:c_goller@hotmail.com">c_goller@hotmail.com</a> and <a href="http://www.sitting-in-circles.com/" target="_blank">www.sitting</a><a href="http://www.sitting-in-circles.com/" target="_blank">-in-circles.com</a></p>