Shalhoup, Mara

Mara Shalhoup is a decorated journalist and a senior editor with "Creative Loafing", the preeminent alternative newsweekly serving the South. She started her writing career as a crime reporter at the "Macon Telegraph", and has gone on to earn such honors as a Clarion Award, two nominations for a Livingston Award, and recognition from the Atlanta Press Club as the city s Journalist of the Year. "BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family" is her first book. She lives with her husband in Atlanta.