Contributors
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Sean DesVignes is a 2015 Beinecke Scholar and the author of Take My Eyes to the Dry Cleaners (evolNYC, 2014). A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, his honors include the Beatrice Dubin Rose Award and the Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize. He is a member of the Divine Fabrics Collective and a poetry editor at Kinfolks and shufPoetry.
Mary Ganster is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oregon specializing in nineteenth-century multiethnic American literatures. She will defend her dissertation, “Affects of Belonging: Emotion and Citizenship in U.S. Fiction, 1854–1899,” in 2016.
Aaron Yale Heisler’s work has appeared in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, and Philological Quarterly. He lives in Toronto and currently teaches at Trent University.
Chad Jewett is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Connecticut. His work focuses on twentieth-century African American and Southern literature and has appeared in Southern Literary Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, and The Faulkner Journal.
Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, a children’s book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the creative writing program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Red Earth M.F.A. creative writing program at Oklahoma City University.
Justin Mellette is currently completing his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests focus on twentieth-century American literature, particularly Southern literature, critical race theory, and comics and graphic novels. His dissertation traces depictions of white racial anxiety in Southern literature from the Civil War until the civil rights era.
Jennifer Ryan is an associate professor of English and coordinator of the English M.A. program at SUNY-Buffalo State College. Her book, Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. She has also published on improvisation, Ezra Pound, Sonia Sanchez, and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, among other topics.
Candace G. Wiley was born in South Carolina, graduated with her B.A. from Bowie State University, her M.A. from Clemson University, and her M.F.A. from the University of South Carolina. Wiley has recently finished a Fulbright fellowship in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, a town that was founded by escaped enslaved Africans, who still have their own language and customs that trace back to the Bantu and Kikongo in West Africa. She is now living and writing in Greenville, South Carolina, teaching at Clemson University, and is director of a nonprofit organization called The Watering Hole, which works to create a safe space for poets of color in the South. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, Electronic Corpse, Prairie Schooner, pluck!, Jasper, and Home is Where, among others. [End Page 487]
