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  • Contributors

Edna Acosta-Belén is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies, and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at the University at Albany, SUNY. She has published nine books, including (with C. E. Santiago) the award-winning Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait (2006). She received her PhD from Columbia University and has been a visiting professor at Cornell University and a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Yale Universities.

Jossianna Arroyo is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of African and African Diaspora at the University of Texas, Austin, where she specializes in Caribbean literatures and cultures, Afro-diaspora studies, racial critical theory, and queer studies. She is the author of Travestismos culturales: Literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil (2003); Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry (2013); and several essays on the work of Julia de Burgos and Manuel Ramos Otero. She is currently completing a new project on race and body in contemporary media and new media titled “Caribbean Mediascapes.”

Kamau Brathwaite is a distinguished poet, historian, and essayist who taught for years at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and subsequently at New York University. He is the author most recently of the collections Strange Fruit (2016) and The Lazarus Poems (2017). In 1994, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.

Charles V. Carnegie is a professor of anthropology at Bates College, Lewiston, and has been associated with the Small Axe Project for almost two decades. He is the author of Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002) and is presently working on a collection of essays, “Kingston Space, Kingston Time,” that explores aspects of the city’s contemporary cultural politics. Portions of the manuscript have been presented at St. Andrews University, Scotland, at the annual meetings of the West Indian Literature conference, and at the American Anthropological Association.

Ricardo Edwards (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) is a self-taught artist and digital illustrator. He was born in Jamaica in 1994 and raised in rural St. Ann. Upon leaving high school he realized that for reasons having to do with resources there was little possibility of attending an arts college, therefore he decided to pursue his own path. He is now a full-time visual artist.

Curdella Forbes is a fiction writer and a professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University. Her essays have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Small Axe. She is the author of Songs of Silence (2002, 2010); Flying with Icarus (2003); From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, [End Page 219] George Lamming, and the Cultural Performance of Gender (2005); A Permanent Freedom (2008); and Ghosts (2012).

Donette Francis, a founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, is the director of the American Studies Program and an associate professor of English at the University of Miami. Her book Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (2010) mobilizes the term antiromance to rethink feminist and Caribbean emancipatory politics. Her current book projects include “Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City,” a socio-cultural history of black arts in Miami, and “The Novel 1960s: Form and Sensibilities in Caribbean Literary Culture.”

Obika Gray has taught at the University of Michigan, Flint; Vassar College; the University of the West Indies, Mona, where he was a professorial fellow; and the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, where he was professor in comparative politics. His publications include Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960–1972 (1991) and Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica (2004).

Sheri-Marie Harrison is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she researches and teaches Caribbean, global anglophone, and African diaspora literature and cultural studies. She is the author of Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature (2014) and is currently working on...

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