Brian G Gilmore was born and raised in Washington D.C.  Professor Gilmore spent 15 years in law practice most exclusively in public interest legal work, working for the Neighborhood Legal Services Program and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. From 2005 through 2010, Gilmore developed and initiated the Fair Housing Teaching Program for the Clinical Law Center, organized programs to educate local constituents and community advocates on ever-relevant legal topics, taught Introduction to Lawyering Process for Education Administrators, and served as a guest lecturer in Professional Responsibility and Pre-Trial Litigation courses. He also designed and taught the Housing Law and the Public Interest course at Howard University. He has taught at Michigan State University from 2010-2021, as Associate Professor and Director of the Housing Law Clinic at the law college. Gilmore has approximately 50 published works to his credit, including law review articles, legal articles, commentary, reviews, and contributions to books, essays, anthologies, and encyclopedias. His works have appeared in the Washington Post, Book Forum, ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, The Progressive, and the South Carollina Law Review.  A respected legal expert in the area of landlord-tenant advocacy and policy and inequality, Gilmore has delivered more than 30 panels, workshops, lectures, and presentations before a wide range of audiences. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters, a 2014 NAACP Image Award Nominee. He is both a Cave Canem Fellow and Kimbilio Fellow, and recipient of a 2020 Michigan Notable Book Award for his book, come see about me marvin (Wayne State University Press 2019).