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.