Mark Kemp

Mark Kemp

Mark Kemp is Creative Loafing's former editor-in-chief, and the author of Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South. He is currently the senior editor of Our State magazine. Kemp has previously served as editor-in-chief of the San Francisco alt-media outlet SF Weekly, entertainment editor at The Charlotte Observer, senior music editor at Rolling Stone, and vice president of music editorial for MTV Networks. In 1997 he received a Grammy nomination for his essay in Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective box set of music by the '60s protest singer Phil Ochs.