Contributors
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Chris Abani, novelist, poet, and playwright, was born in Nigeria, where he lived until the 1990s, after having served three prison terms for his creative writings. He is author of ten books of fiction and poetry, including Masters of the Board, GraceLand, The Virgin of Flames, Song for Night, Hands Washing Water (poems), and Sanctificum. His work has garnered for him such honors as the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Awards, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Guggenheim Award in Fiction, and numerous others. He is Professor at the University of California in Riverside.
Thierry Alet, a native of Guadeloupe, has exhibited his paintings and drawings in group and solo shows in New York, Paris, Havana, Fort-de-France, Rio de Janeiro, and other cities throughout the world. He began his formal training in art at Institut Regional des Arts Visuels in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and later studied, as a graduate student, at Pratt Institute in New York, where he also met and studied with world renowned Jean Michel Basquait. Alet is the founder of the DiVA Digital & Video Art Fair, which he has described as “the first art fair dedicated to Video and Digital Art. Since the invention of photography, nothing has had a greater impact on artistic practice than the emergence of the personal video camera and, later, digital technology.” He also serves as Director of Exhibitions of Frère Independent, an international nonprofit “organization whose aim is to provide widespread visibility to artists.” He lives in New York.
Tiffany Austin is a candidate for the PhD degree in English at St. Louis University. She has published in Obsidian III, Warpland, and Coloring Book: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by Multicultural Writers (2004).
Chandra D. Bhimull is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the African American Studies Program at Colby College. She has published in Hispanic American Historical Review and Small Axe, and is co-editor of Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline.
Remica L. Bingham, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is author of Conversion, a collection that won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has also appeared in such periodicals and anthologies as New Letters, PMS, Gulf Coast, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and The 100 Best African American Poems. Before becoming the Writing Competency Coordinator at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia, she completed the MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. A Cave Canem fellow, she has attended the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.
Giulia Bonacci is Historian at the Research Institute for Development in France, and currently works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is author of Exodus! L’histoire du retour des Rastafariens en Ethiopie, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the State, 1974–1999, and numerous articles and chapters of books, including Autour de “l’Atlantique noir” (eds. C. Agudelo, et al.), Études Caribéennes, Psychopathologe Africaine, Les Annales d’Éthiopie, and Les traits et les esclavages. [End Page 981]
Celia Britton, Professor of French at the University College of London and Fellow of the British Academy, is author of a number of books and articles in French studies, including Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, Claude Simon: Writing the Visible, The Nouveau Roman: Fiction, Theory and Politics, Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought, and The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction, as well as periodical publications about Jacques Roumain, Daniel Maximin, and Maryse Condé. From 1991–2002 she was the Carnegie Professor of French at Aberdeen University in Scotland.
Noviolet Bulawayo recently completed her MFA degree at Cornell University, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She won a 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her writing has appeared in The Warwick Review and Boston Review.
Amanda Choo Quan was born in Trinidad and Tobago and currently lives in Jamaica. Her work has been published in the Trinidadian-based Caribbean Belle, the Trinidad Guardian, and in various blogs and online magazines.
Nandi Comer is currently studying for the MFA in creative writing (poetry) and the MA in African American and African Diaspora studies at Indiana University...
