Contributors
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GERI AUGUSTO, a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar in Brazil, is Visiting Associate Professor at Brown University. She has also taught at the Harvard Kennedy School. Augusto is co-chair of the New Works Committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Legacy Project, and a collaborator of the Steve Biko Cultural Institute in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
SHERRIE BAVER teaches political science and Latin American studies at the City College of New York and The Graduate Center-CUNY. She is the author of The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico; and co-editor of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition and Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms.
KIMBERLY W. BENSTON is Provost and Francis B. Gummere Professor of English and Africana Studies at Haverford College. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask, Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism, and the Black Arts Movement section of the third edition of Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
PATRICIA COLOMA-PENATE recently received the PhD in English from Georgia State University and is currently serving as a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
MICHELLE D. COMMANDER is an assistant professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Tennessee and a recent Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana. Her book manuscript, Afro-Atlantic Speculation: Imagined Africas, Flight, and the Fantastic, is forthcoming.
MARGO NATALIE CRAWFORD is an associate professor of African American literature at Cornell University. She is author of Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus and co-editor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. She has also published in such periodicals and anthologies as Black Renaissance Noire, Études Faulknériennes, Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Post-1945, Black Camera Journal, Callaloo, and A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance.
FRED D’AGUIAR, a native of London who grew up in Guyana, is a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist. His recent books include The Longest Memory, Dear Future, British Subjects, Bill of Rights, English Sampler: New and Selected Poems, Bethany Bettany, and Continental Shelf (shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2009, and a UK Poetry Book Society Choice). A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death, a play, was produced at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1991. In June 2013, his new collection of poems, The Rose of Toulouse, was published, and his sixth novel, Children of Paradise, inspired by the tragedy of Jonestown, Guyana, was published in 2014 by Granta (UK) and HarperCollins (USA). He has published nonfiction prose in such periodicals as Harper’s Magazine, Wasafiri, Callaloo, and Best American Essays. He teaches courses in creative writing at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, where he is Professor of English. [End Page 764]
TOI DERRICOTTE is the author of a number of books of poems, including The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Tender (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, and Captivity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989). Elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012, she is a Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh.
CAMILLE DUNGY is Professor of English at Colorado State University. She is author of three volumes of poems, Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow (winner of the American Book Award in 2011), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. She has edited three anthologies, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade.
STEVE EDWIN is a writer based in New York City.
SHARAI ERIMA lectures at City University of New York’s Bronx Community College. His work has previously been published in Callaloo.
C. S. GISCOMBE, a native of Dayton, Ohio, is author of Into and Out of Dislocation, Gis-come Road, Here, and Prairie Style (winner of the 2008 American Book Award). His books Ohio Railroads and Border Towns will appear in 2014 and 2015. He has also published in Hambone, Callaloo, and Iowa Review...
