Contributors
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Kristiana Colón is a poet, playwright, actor, and educator living and working in Chicago. She has served as an adjunct English and humanities professor at Chicago State University, Malcolm X College, and Tribeca Flashpoint Academy. Colón has also performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. The poems “safe word” and “stranger fruit,” appearing herein, will also be published in her forthcoming promised instruments (Northwestern UP).
Brittney Cooper is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University. She is also co founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog.
Curtis L. Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. His books are Pulling Scabs, Tough Boy Sonatas, and Dreamist: a mixed-genre novel. His chapbook Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy was recently released by Finishing Line Press. He’s been published in many magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), and a Cave Canem fellow.
Gail Dore is a retired teacher living in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her passion for writing is equaled only by her interest in the diverse tribal customs and cultures of the South African people. In her stories, she uses lesser-known facts and beliefs to illustrate the simple beauty of precolonial Africa.
Sara Hakeem Grewal is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Her academic interests include Urdu and Persian poetry, translation, lyric theory, and historical poetics.
Eunice Hargett was born in Cove City, North Carolina (population 402). She is an assistant professor of English at Broward College in Davie, Florida. Her latest book, Lessons from a Dirt Road: A Memoir in Poetry, will be published in 2014.
Casey Hayman is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research and teaching interests include contemporary African American literature and popular culture, intersections of black music and literature, and hip-hop studies. His essays can be found in The Massachusetts Review and MELUS (forthcoming).
R. Scott Heath is an assistant professor in the department of English at Georgia State University, where he specializes in African American literature, black popular culture, and speculative race theory. His book Head Theory: Hip_Hop Discourse and Black-Based Culture is under contract with Oxford University Press. His next monograph is provisionally titled Automatic Black: Technologies of Race and Futurism.
Candice M. Jenkins is an associate professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. Her first book, Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy (U of Minnesota P, 2007), was awarded the William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association in 2008. She is currently completing a new manuscript exploring black middle-class embodiment in post-civil rights-era African American fiction, and developing another project that uses principles from reader response and narrative theory to reimagine hip-hop listening.
F. Geoffrey Johnson, poet and visual artist, has been published in several literary journals and anthologies. Johnson self-published two collections of poetry, SMELLS I SEE (2004) and RESTORATION (2005). Visit http://www.smellsisee.com to gain more insight into F. Geoffrey Johnson’s literary and visual artistry. [End Page 199]
Esther L. Jones is an assistant professor of English and the E. Franklin Frazier Chair of African American Literature, Theory, and Culture at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she teaches American and African American literature and culture. Her current book project, “Theorizing Difference: Sex, Survival, and Narrative Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction” examines the constructions of black pathology and bioethics in science fiction by contemporary black women writers.
Treva B. Lindsey is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on African American women’s history and culture, black feminist thought, hip-hop studies, and black sexual politics.
Stephen J. Mexal is an associate professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. His work has appeared in MELUS, English Language Notes, ESQ, Studies in the Novel, ADE Bulletin, and the Chronicle Review. He is the author of Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West (U of Nebraska P, 2013).
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