Contributors
- Contributors
Jacques-Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) is author of three novels, Les arbres musiciens (1957), Compère Général Soleil (1955), L'espace d'un cillement (1959); and one collection of short fiction, Romancero aux étoiles (1960). This descendent of Jean-Jacques Dessalines was one of Haiti's most brilliant creative minds, who, with poet and fiction writer René Depestre, founded La Ruche, a literary magazine, around which gathered various writers and political activists. It was for Alexis's political and social ideas and work that the Duvalier regime forced him out Haiti during the late 1950s, and when he returned from exile in 1961, he was captured, and then tortured and killed.
Steven Almquist is a candidate for the Ph. D. degree in English at the University of Iowa, where is writing a dissertation on Kiswahili.
Gastón Baquero (1916–1997) was born in Banes, which is now part of the province of Holguin in Cuba. In spite of the rural poverty in which he was born and reared, he was educated as an agronomist before becoming a journalist and poet. Shortly after the Cuban Revolution began, he left the island nation for Spain, where he lived until his death in Madrid in 1997, having published several collections of essays, as well as eight volumes of poems. The Angel of Rain, a selection of his poetry in English translation by Greg Simon and Steven F. White, will be published this summer by Eastern Washington University Press.
Lillian Bertram, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, will begin studying for the MFA in creative writing at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Tierra Fisurada, a book of Spanish-language poetry published in Argentina. Her poems have appeared in a number of periodicals, including Georgetown Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Main Street Rag.
Jane Bryce, who received the Ph.D. degree at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, teaches African literature and cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is author of a collection of short fiction, Chameleon (Peepal Tree Press), and editor of Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean (Macmillan).
Edgar Cano is an undergraduate student specializing in painting at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. Manuel Velázquez is his master teacher at the University.
Casey Clabough teaches at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He has published studies of James Dickey, Fred Chappell, and other writers in a number of books and periodicals, including The Sewanee Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He is a contributing editor to The Hollins Critic.
Austin Clarke, who was born in Trinidad, is author or more than fifteen books. In 1955, he moved to Canada, where—working variously as a civil rights leader, a professor, and a broadcaster—he continues to live. There Are No Elders (1993), A Passage Back Home: A Personnel Reminiscence of Sam Selvon (1994), The Origin of Waves (1997), The Origins of Waves (2001), Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories of Austin Clarke (2003), and The Polished [End Page 702] Hoe (2003) are but a few of his published volumes. The Polished Hoe won for him the 2002 Giller Prize, the 2003 Trillium Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003 for the Best Book.
Carrol F. Coates, an associate editor of Callaloo, is a professor of French and comparative literature at the State University of New York in Binghamton. In addition to publishing numerous studies of French and Francophone literatures, he is translating, from French to English, a third novel by Haitian novelist Jacques-Stephen Alexis.
Michael S. Collins, an associate editor of Callaloo, is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University in College Station. His poetry, fiction, and literary criticism have appeared in such venues as Michigan Quarterly Review, The Malahat Review, 32 Poems, Parnassus, The Best American Poetry 2003. He guest edited the recent special issue of Callaloo devoted to Yusef Komnunyakaa.
Lisa Coxson, a graduate of Rutgers University, is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Eugene Cross received the MFA degree at the University of Pittsburgh. "Eyes Closed" is his first publication.
Curdella Forbes is an...
