Contributors
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JOAN ANIM-ADDO, who was born in Grenada in the Caribbean, is a professor of Caribbean literature and culture and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also teaches courses in other African Diaspora literatures and cultures. She is founding editor of Mango Season, the journal of Caribbean women’s writing. Her publications include Touching the Body: History, Language, & African Caribbean Women’s Writing, Framing the Word: Gender and Genre, and other critical books in the field as well as volumes of her creative writing, Imoinda, Haunted by History, and Janie, Cricketing Lady. She is co-editor of I Am Black, White, Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe, Interculturality and Gender, and Affects and Creolisation, a special issue of The Feminist Review.
DERRICK AUSTIN, a Cave Canem fellow, received his MFA from the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2015, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, New England Review, Crab Orchard Review, Memorious, Un-splendid, and other journals and anthologies.
COURTNEY BRYAN, New Orleans native, is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests,” declares the New York Times. She has performed in the St. Paul’s Chapel Concert Series and at The Blue Note in New York, and her own compositions have been performed by the American Composers Orchestra at the Miller Theatre in New York. Her Sanctum was commissioned and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, 2015, and Prophetika: an Oratorio, a collaboration with director Charlotte Brathwaite and artist Abigail DeVille, was premiered at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, New York, 2015. Commissioned by Spektral String Quartet for Mobile Miniatures Project (Chicago), her Rising premiered in 2014. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD is a world-renowned visual artist who has exhibited her works of sculpture in many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her literary career began in 1974 with Random House’s publication of her first collection of poetry, From Memphis & Peking, edited by Toni Morrison. Her bestselling iconic novel Sally Hemings altered American history by walking this historical figure through the front door of Jeffersonian scholarship. After a twenty-five-year battle with the opposing Jeffersonians, and as a result of DNA testing in 1997, her prize-winning, widely translated novel was recognized as fact. Chase-Riboud’s collected and new poems, Everytime a Knot Is Undone a God Is Released, published by Seven Stories in 2014, includes her first published collection From Memphis & Peking and her Carl Sandburg prize winning Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra as well as four other books. These collected works will be followed by four new collections of works illuminating the dual accomplishments of this extraordinary artist and writer.
FLOYD COLEMAN is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art, Division of Fine Arts, at Howard University where he taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate art history courses and seminars from 1987 to 2010 and served as coordinator of the James [End Page 696] A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art from 1990 to 2009. He has published extensively on African American art in a number of journals and anthologies—for example, International Review of African American Art, Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell, Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Profit, and the Academy, The New Crisis, Felrath Hines, American Heritage, James A. Porter, Artist and Art Historian: The Memory and the Legacy, Basic Design: Systems, Elements, Applications, Black Art: An International Quarterly, and Journal of the Society of Ethnic and Special Studies. As an educator, visual artist, and art historian, he has received a number of honors and grants from the DC Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian, and others, and his works have been featured in twenty-two solo and over 150 group exhibitions and included in many public and private collections.
FRED D’AGUIAR is author of several books of poetry and fiction that have been translated into a dozen languages. His first novel, The Longest Memory, won the Whitbread...
