Cecil Foster is internationally acclaimed author, academic, journalist, and public intellectual in the areas of multiculturalism, race, ethnicity, immigration and social identities. His non-fiction work They Call Me George was nominated for the Toronto Book Award, and his novel Sleep On, Beloved was shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Book Prize. Foster is a professor of transnational studies at State University of New York at Buffalo and splits his residences between Buffalo, New York, and Waterdown, Ontario.