Contributors
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LESLIE MARIE AGUILAR originally hails from the heartland of Texas. She has served as the Poetry Editor of Indiana Review and received her MFA from Indiana University. She is the recipient of a National Society of Arts and Letters Chapter Career Award, the David E. Albright Memorial Award, and the Washington Square Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Spillway, Sonora Review, and Southern Indiana Review. Her chapbook, Mesquite Manual, was published by New Delta Review in 2015. She is a Fine Arts Work Center fellow.
ODAM ALAKI is the pseudonym of an underground poet and playwright from Tehran who currently lives in Isfahan, Iran.
CHRISTINE BARROW has participated in creative writing courses since retirement as Professor Emerita from the University of the West Indies, Barbados. She was a participant in the 2010 Cropper Foundation Writer’s Workshop in Trinidad and Tobago and in the 2015 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop in Barbados. Her stories have been published in BIM: Arts for the 21st Century, Poui: The Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, and The Caribbean Writer. In 2015, her story Panama Man was shortlisted for the 2015 Small Axe Literary Competition.
SHANITA BIGELOW is a North Carolina native residing in Chicago, where she received an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her publications include work in Drunken Boat, Diverse Arts Project, African American Review, and Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, a poetry anthology.
JARI BRADLEY, a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop Fellow, is studying for an MA degree in ethnic studies at San Francisco State University.
ZAKIA CARPENTER-HALL is a writer, facilitator, and personal coach based in the United Kingdom. She has been a Writer in Residence with The Poetry School and London Parks & Gardens Trust, and is currently pursuing the MFA in creative writing at Kingston University in London.
MARY JEAN CHAN, a poet from Hong Kong, has published in Oxford Poetry, Callaloo, Ambit (forthcoming), The Rialto (forthcoming), The Cadaverine, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights. A former TEDx speaker, VONA Fellow, and Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop Fellow, she received the 2015 University of London MA Creative Writing Prize and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
EBONY E. CHINN, a native of New Jersey, studied anthropology and African American studies at Temple University, where she was a McNair scholar. She is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop Fellow, an assistant editor for BrickHouse Books, a poetry assistant editor for Drunken Boat, and a fiction editor for The Missing Slate.
GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE, who teaches literature at the University of Toronto, is the fourth Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-2015) and the seventh Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-2017) of Canada. He has also held appointments to the Order of Nova Scotia and the [End Page 726] Order of Canada. His creative and academic publications have also garnered for him other honors, including the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry, the Premiul Poesis (Romania), the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry, and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award.
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...
