Kevin Sessums is a writer whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Playboy, Travel+Leisure, The Advocate, OUT, Elle, Marie Claire, Allure, and Parade magazines. His interviews are frequently posted on The Daily Beast website. His 2007 memoir, Mississippi Sissy, was a New York Times bestseller and won the Lambda Literary Award in the Men's Memoir/Biography category. Its sequel, I Left It on the Mountain, will be published by St. Martins Press in the spring of 2013.