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  • About the Contributors

Sonia Adams is an African American poet, educator, and cultural worker. She is currently pursuing doctoral study in English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of scholarship are comparative women’s and American multiethnic literatures, contemporary avant-garde poetry and poetics, women’s and multicultural studies, and feminist, postcolonial, and race theories. In writing poetry, she is particularly concerned with how ancestral memory, history, culture, and social, political, and cultural movement inform women’s experience.

Kimberly Juanita Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. A native of New York City, Brown received degrees from Queens College, CUNY, and Yale University. She is currently working on a collection of poems entitled Elegy for Roslyn’s Daughters. She lives and writes in Providence, Rhode Island.

Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian-Canadian writer/scholar born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (PhD, University of Iowa). Her first novel, Spirit of Haiti (Mango, 2003), was short-listed in the Best First Book Category, Canada/ Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004. She is also the author of Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (Rutgers University Press, 1997), Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (Temple University Press, 1997; Choice OAB Award, 1998), and the novels The Scorpion’s Claw (Peepal Tree Press, 2005) and The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press, 2010). She recently completed her third academic work, From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions from Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, forthcoming from Wilfred Laurier University Press. Her work as editor of Meridians (2002–2004) garnered the CELJ Phoenix Award for Editorial Achievement in 2004. She currently sits on the editorial advisory board of PMLA and is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Carolle Charles is an associate professor of sociology at Baruch College. Her present scholarly work focuses on three interconnected areas of research: labor migration and transnational patterns of migrants’ identities; the dynamics of race, culture, and history; and gender and empowerment. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Feminist Studies and Journal of American Ethnic History, as well as [End Page 163] in the anthologies The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean, edited by Linden Lewis (University of Florida Press, 2003) and The Invisible Others/Active Presences: Self-Ethnographies Problematizing Blackness, edited by Jean Rahier and Pertzy Hintzen (Routledge, 2003), among others. She has served on the editorial boards of Gender and Society, Identity, a journal of transnationalism, and Wadabagei, a journal of Caribbean studies. She is on the executive board of the Haitian Studies Association (HSA) and will serve as President of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) in 2012. She is a founder and acting chair of DWA FANM (Women’s Rights), a non-profit organization in New York.

Jennifer Cho is currently a full-time visiting instructor of Writing at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She received her PhD in English from the George Washington University.

Brunine David was born in Petit-Goâve and is the daughter of poet, writer, and dramatist Maurice David. She started her acting career at age four. A divorced mother of three, she actively worked in Haiti for ten years promoting human rights and women’s rights. Her poetry reflects her militancy, her dream for a better tomorrow for her country, and the beauty of her native town. She proclaims her passion for life, for love, and for writing. She is one of the main actors in the successful television series, Les Frères Djolè, broadcast in Florida and written by Elizabeth Guérin. Her poetry has appeared in Brassage: An Anthology of Poems by Haitian Women. An active performance poet, she reads regularly in various venues in Miami.

Linda Diane Horwitz, PhD, is an associate professor and chair of Communication and Women and Gender Studies at Lake Forest College. Her most recent scholarly work can be found in the anthologies What Do Women Want: Feminism and Contemporary Pop Culture (2009), and The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Reform (Michigan State University Press, 2008).

Nadève Ménard is a professor of literature at the École Normale...

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