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  • Contributors

Bryant Keith Alexander is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at California State University in Los Angeles. His essays have been published in Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Topics, The Speech Communication Teacher and a series of collected essays related to performance, pedagogy, culture and family. His short autobiographical narrative entitled, "Standing at the Crossroads" was published in Callaloo and appears in The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writings by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures.

Jeffery Renard Allen is author of Harbors and Spirits (poems), Rails Under My Back (fiction), and Stellar Places (poems, forthcoming from Moyer Bell). He is an associate professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Miriam Alves, who lives in Brazil, is a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic. She is editor of Finally Us, an anthology by and about African-Brazilian women published in the USA. Momentos de Busca and Estrelas no Dedo are her collections of poems. She has also published work in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including Cadernos Negros, Moving Beyond the Boundaries, Criacao Crioula, and Callaloo.

Alvin Aubert, an award-winning poet, is Professor Emeritus of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1975, he founded Obsidian, and edited the literary journal until 1985. He is author of Against the Blues, Feeling Through, South Louisiana, and If Winter Come: Collected Poems 1967-1994. His latest collection of poems is Harlem Wrestler (1995).

Jennifer Devere Brody is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture (Duke University Press, 1998) and The Style of Elements: Politically Performing Punctuation (forthcoming).

Tracy Butts is a candidate for the PhD in English at the University of Georgia.

Carrol F. Coates, an associate editor of Callaloo, is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York in Binghamton. His French to English translations include a number of Haitian works, including Rene Depestre's The Festival of the Greasy Pole, Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Dignity, and Jacques Stephen Alexis' General Sun, My Brother.

Steven Cordova is a graduate of the University of Texas, Austin, and has poems published in Borderlands, Barrow Street, The James White Review, and The Journal. He now lives in New York City.

David Dabydeen, poet, novelist, and scholar, was educated at Cambridge University and University College London, and is now Professor of Literature at the University of Warwick. He has published three collections of poetry, Slave Song (winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize), Coolie Odyssey, and Turner: New and Selected Poems (1994), and four novels, including most recently The Harlot's Progress, published in 1999 by Jonathan Cape.

Franz Douskey is Professor of Humanities at Gateway Community College and the author of Rowing Across the Dark (1981), Sitting Across from Death (1980), and Indecent Exposure (1976). His work has appeared in The Nation, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the Georgia Review, and the New York Quarterly, among others. [End Page 1522]

Phebus Etienne, who studied at Rider University and New York University, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. She has published poems in Poet Lore, Mudfish, Caribbean Writer, and Beacon Best of 2000.

Percival Everett is a professor of English at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His numerous books of fiction include Frenzy, God's Country, and Glyph.

Virginia C. Fowler, a professor of English at Virginia Tech, is author of Henry James's American Girl: The Embroidery on the Canvas, Nikki Giovanni, and Gloria Naylor: In Search of Sanctuary. She is editor of Conversations with Nikki Giovanni.

Brian Gilmore, a resident of Takoma Park, Maryland, was born in Washington, DC. This practicing attorney is author of two books of poems, Elvis Presley Is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem and Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags.

Nikki Giovanni, American poet, essayist, and lecturer, is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996), Love Poems (1997), and Blues: For All the Changes (1999). She has also edited an anthology of African-American poetry...

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