Contributors
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Chris Abani, a Middleton Fellow at the University of Southern California, teaches at Antioch University's MFA program in Los Angeles. A poet, playwright, and fiction writer, Abani is the author of the novels Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985) and Sirocco (Swan, 1987); the plays Room at the Top (IBC, 1983) and Song of a Broken Flute (IMOSU, 1990), among others; and the poetry collections Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001), winner of the 2001 PEN USA West Freedom-to-Write Award and the 2001 Prince Claus of Netherlands Award, and Daphne's Lot (Red Hen Press, 2003). Graceland, a novel, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2004.
Kamau Brathwaite teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Winner of the Neustadt International Award for Literature in 1994, he is the author of Ancestors (2002), Words Need Love Too (2000), and The Arrivants (1973), as well as a wide variety of texts fusing poetry, history, and testimonio, in what has come to be known as his "Sycorax Video-Style": The Zea Mexican Diary (1993), Trench Town Rock (1994), and Golokwati (2002). From Sycorax also comes the dreamstories, of which "Grease" is the second published in Callaloo (the first appeared in 1989).
Jana Evans Braziel is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and, during 2002-2003 was Five College Fellow in the Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College. Widely published in journals and essay collections on both African diasporic writers and American cultural studies, she is co-editor (with Anita Mannur) of Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader (Blackwell, 2003) and (with Kathleen LeBesco) of Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (University of California Press, 2001).
Jean "Binta" Breeze is an internationally renowned Jamaican poet and performer. Her poetry collections include the books Riddym Ravings (1988), Spring Cleaning (1992) and, most recently, The Arrival of Brighteye and Other Poems (2000). Several recordings of her work are available, including Tracks (1991) and Riding on de Riddym (1996). She is currently working on her first novel, which will trace five generations of women's voices through the evolving history and music of Jamaica.
Christopher Breu is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches 20th-century American literature, popular culture, and cultural and critical theory. He is the author of articles on Dashiell Hammett, Maryse Cond, Frank Sinatra, and contemporary techno and indie rock. Currently, he is finishing work on Hard-Boiled Masculinities: Fantasizing Gender in American Literature and Popular Culture, 1920-1945 (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
Rose Anne Brister lives in New Orleans, where she teaches courses in writing at Delgado Community College and tutors business writers at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. [End Page 927]
Jericho Brown currently holds the C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship at the University of Houston, where he is a student in the PhD program in Creative Writing and Literature. He is a Cave Canem fellow, a member of NOMMO Literary Society, and has poems in Callaloo and Role Call. He is originally from New Orleans, LA.
Priscilla Ann Brown holds a B.S.E. from Arkansas State University and an M.S.E. from Harding University. She currently teaches 8th grade (Human and Civil Rights and Responsibilities) at the Sheridan School in Washington, DC, and is completing her PhD at Howard University.
Stephanie Brown is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University Newark. Her publications include work on African-American literature and film, feminism and popular culture, and French literature and translation theory.
Anthony Butts is a member of the creative writing faculty of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the author of Fifth Season (1997) and Little Low Heaven (2003). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
Keith Clark is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. His essays have appeared in African American Review, Faulkner Journal, and New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, among others, and he is the author of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson and editor of Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and...
