Darryl Dickson-Carr (born 1968) is an American editor and critic.
He graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara, with a Ph.D. He taught at Florida State University, and teaches at Southern Methodist University.
2006 American Book Award, for The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American FictionDickson-Carr, Darryl (2001). African American satire: the sacredly profane novel. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1325-9. Darryl Dickson-Carr, ed. (2005). The Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12472-0. David Seed, ed. (2009). "Ishmael Reed: American Iconoclast". A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-4691-3. "The Projection of the Beast: Subverting Mythologies in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.”, CLA Journal 49:2 (December 2005). 168-83.“Introduction.” Ebony Rising: Short Fiction from the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era, 1912-1940, Craig Gable ed. Indiana University Press, 2004.