Contributors
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ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, a native New Yorker of Dominican heritage, is an educator, performer, and writer. She graduated from George Washington University with a BA degree in performing arts, and she later received an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of Maryland. She is widely known for her performance-based poetry, and she is now beginning to receive considerable attention for her literary poetry which has been published in a number of magazines, including Poet Lore, Acentos Review, and Notre Dame Review. In 2015, the Editors of the Locked Press pronounced her winner of the 2015 LHP Publication Prize for her poem “La Ciguapa.” She is author of “Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths,” a chapbook to be published by YesYes Books in late 2016. She lives in Washington, DC.
A. H. JERRIOD AVANT is a graduate of Jackson State University (MS) who has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and from New York University, where he was a Writer in the Public Schools Fellow. A Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow, he has published poems in the Mississippi Review, Boston Review, Pinwheel, Louisville Review, The Rumpus, Callaloo, and other journals. His poetry has garnered for him a number of honors, including the Joseph F. McCrindle Online Editorial Fellowship from Poets & Writers, a 2015 Vermont Studio Center residency, and a 2015–2016 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He hails from Longtown, MS.
DESIREE BAILEY, born in Trinidad & Tobago, has published (or will soon be published) in two genres, poetry and short fiction, in Best American Poetry, Callaloo, Transition, Muzzle, and other publications. She is a Brown University MFA, with fellowships from Princeton in Africa, the Norman Mailer Center, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and an honor from the Poets & Writer, the Amy Award. She currently lives in Harlem, where she is an educator and the fiction editor of Kinfolks Quarterly.
JENNIFER BARTELL received the MFA in poetry from the University of South Carolina in 2014. Her poetry has been published in Callaloo, PLUCK!, Blackberry: a magazine, decomP, Fall Lines, and the museum americana, among others. She also has work forthcoming in The Raleigh Review and Kakalak. Jennifer is an administrator for The Watering Hole, a poetry collective for Southern poets and poets of color who write about the South. She is a 2014 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow and teaches English at Spring Valley High School in Columbia.
JOSHUA BENNETT, winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, is a candidate for the PhD in English at Princeton University. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He has recited his original work at venues such as the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. He was recently elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, and will join the Society as a Junior Fellow upon graduating from Princeton later this spring. Penguin Books will publish his first of collection of poems, The Sobbing School, in September 2016. [End Page 502]
CELESTE-MARIE BERNIER is Professor of African American studies at the University of Nottingham and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Studies published by Cambridge University Press.
JOHN P. BOWLES is Associate Professor of African American art history in the Art Department and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment (Duke University Press). His critical work on Clifford Owens and Sargent Johnson and his research and reviews have appeared as chapters in books such as Clifford Owens: Anthology and A Long and Tumultuous Relationship: East-West Interchanges in American Art, and in such periodical publications as Art in America, Signs, Art Papers, and Art Journal. In 2009, he began the African American Performance Art Archive (aapaa.org), a digital art history project.
JANA EVANS BRAZIEL, Western College Endowed Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, is author of Duvalier’s Ghosts...
