Contributors
- Contributors
Bryant Keith Alexander recently completed his Ph.D. in Speech Communication (Performance Studies) at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is currently Assistant Professor of Performance and Pedagogical Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
Will Alexander is the author of six books, including Asia & Haiti, The Stratospheric Canticles, and Towards the Primeval Lightning Field. Asia & Haiti was a PEN finalist in 1996. His more recent work has been published in Orpheus Grid, XCP, Fence, Chain, and Hambone.
Lena Ampadu is Professor of English at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where she teaches African-American Literature, African Women Writers, and undergraduate writing courses. Her research interests include the rhetoric of 19th-century African-American women and orality and literacy.
Lindon Barrett is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Blackness and Value: Seeing Double and is an associate editor of Callaloo for literary and cultural studies.
Paulette Beete has studied writing with Yusef Komunyakaa, Maureen Seaton, and Rohan Preston, and she has been involved in numerous workshops, most recently The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Rhode Island. Paulette was the recipient of a 1998 CAAP grant from the City of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Rhino, and she is a founding member of “The Divas,” a Chicago-based collective of poets.
RÉNE BÉLANCE lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He taught in Haiti and in the United States until his retirement in 1982, and is the author of Rythme de mon Coeur (1940), Luminaires (1941), Pour Célébrer l′Absence (1943), and Nul Ailleurs (1983), a collection of his earlier poetry.
Patrick Chamoise lives in Martinique. He is the author of several novels, including Chronigue des sept miséres, Solibo Magnifique, and Texaco (Prix Goncourt, 1992). He also wrote with J. Bernabé and R. Confiant Eloge de la Créolite.
Phebus Etienne was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. She studied at Rider University and New York University and has worked most recently as a teacher. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Mudfish, and Caribbean Writer.
Barbara Griffin is Associate Professor at Howard University, where she teaches African-American literature and humanities. She has presented papers at professional conferences and has published articles on Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance. She is currently preparing an edition of Claude McKay’s unpublished poems.
Dan Hanke recently received a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
D. TRINIDAD HANKS lives in Houston, Texas.
Scott Hightower, originally from Texas, teaches at New York University in Gallatin. Recent poems of his have appeared in The Yale Review and Ploughshares. He is a contributing editor to The Journal.
Reuben Jackson works as an archivist with the Smithsonian’s Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald Collections. His first book of poems entitled Fingering the Keys won the 1992 Columbia Book Award.
Kathleen Kirk teaches literature and writing at DePaul University in Chicago. Her poems and stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol, Mangrove, and Spoon River Poetry Review. She is an associate editor of Rhino, a literary annual.
Gerald Majer is Professor of English at Villa Julie College near Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study entitled Contagions: A Modern History and essays on jazz, race, and postmodern culture.
Joanne McFarland is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Cape Rock, African American Review, Great Midwestern Quarterly, Obsidian II, and Acorn Whistle, as well as Callaloo. The poems appearing in this edition of Callaloo are from her third collection Nudescapes. Her second poetry collection is forthcoming from Acorn Whistle Press (Summer 1999).
Elizabeth McHenry is Assistant Professor in the English Department at New York University. She is currently completing a study of African-American readers and reading entitled Forgotten Readers: African-American Literary Societies, 1830–1940.
Harryette Mullen is Professor of English and Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches African...
