sessumsKevin Sessums has served as executive editor of Interview and as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, Allure, and Parade. His work has also appeared in Travel+Leisure, Elle, Out, Marie Claire, Playboy, Thedailybeast.com and Towleroad.com. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of FourTwoNine magazine and dot429.com.

In 2007, he published a memoir titled Mississippi Sissy, which is about the conflicted life of a self-aware gay boy growing up in Forest, Mississippi. It made the New York Times Bestseller list and won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Best Male Memoir.[4] His audio recording of Mississippi Sissy was nominated for a 2007 Quill Award.[5]

He portrayed the character Peter Cipriani in the miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.[6] St. Martins Press will publish his sequel to the bestselling Mississippi Sissy which is titled I Left It on the Mountain.