REGGAESTLOUIS.NET is organized by Michael Kuelker with contributions from many people in the local reggae scene. 

   Kuelker is a teacher and writer living in St. Louis, Missouri.  He co-hosts “Positive Vibrations” on KDHX 88.1 FM, a 43,000 watt independent radio station.  He is the editor of Book of Memory: A Rastafari Testimony [CaribSound 2005], the spiritual autobiography of Jamaican Rasta elder Prince Elijah Williams.  Book of Memory is one of the few book-length works about Rasta in the words of a Rastafarian, and the tasks of compiling and editing the oral history took Kuelker to Jamaica many times. 

   Book of Memory, now out of print and being readied for e-book re-release, earned glowing reviews in the Caribbean Review of Books, Zinc Fence, MOJO magazine (4-star review), New Internationalist, RIDDIM and Anthurium.

   In 2003, Kuelker presented new research on the Coral Gardens Incident of 1963 at the XXIII West Indian Literature conference at the University of Miami, and his essay, “The Many Functions of the Bus in Jamaican Music: The Reggae Aesthetic in Motion” was presented at the International Reggae Conference in Kingston, Jamaica in 2010.

   Kuelker is also the host & producer of Wingless Angels: The Podcasts, an audio documentary on the nyahbinghi group comprised of Steer Town Jamaica Rastafarians + Keith Richards; the podcasts can be heard free of charge at WINGLESSANGELS.com and iTunes.

   As a writer Kuelker has contributed to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Beat magazine, JahWorks.org, Peace Review, Tattoo magazine and African American Review.  He has penned album liner notes for Murder City Players as well as for St. Louis blues artists Arthur Williams, Rondo’s Blues Deluxe, Marquise Knox, Benny Smith and Tommy Bankhead.