Contributors
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Shanita Bigelow, originally from North Carolina, currently resides in Chicago. Her work can be found in North American Review, Drunken Boat, NAP, and Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, among others. Wherever Clarity is Necessary, her first chapbook, was published by dancing girl press.
Jacquelyn Grant Brown is a graduate of Louisiana State University, where she received a BA in English and creative writing and a recent graduate of the low-residency creative writing program at Pine Manor College, where she earned a Master’s in poetry. She resides in Baton Rouge with her husband and children.
Uzzie Cannon is a professor of English and a digital humanist with a specialization in African American literature and culture. Her research examines the intersections of gender, race, and narrative in contemporary fiction. She is currently working on a manuscript involving the representation of Emmett Till’s murder in fiction, while also developing digital humanities projects for cultural studies.
Peter Collins is an independent scholar who finished his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in 2011. His work addresses the intersection of fictional narrative and economic discourse.
Michael Compton is a screenwriter and author who teaches at the University of Memphis.
Vinson Cunningham, a former Obama White House staffer, writes and lives in Manhattan. Presently a speechwriter, his work has appeared in The Huffington Post and The Brooklyn Paper. You can find him online at twitter.com/vcunningham.
Shari Evans is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, an affiliate of the women and gender studies and black studies programs, and director of the liberal arts program. Her work focuses on space, gender, ethics, and feminist concepts of “home” in contemporary multiethnic women writers; pedagogy; and, most recently, strategies of forgetting and remembering in multiethnic contemporary women’s writing.
Barbara Foley is Distinguished Professor II of English and American studies at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. She has published widely in the fields of Marxist criticism, literary radicalism, and African American literature. Her books include Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (U of Illinois P, 2003); Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Duke UP, 2010); and Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution (U of Illinois P, forthcoming, 2014). She is on the manuscript committee and editorial board of Science & Society and is President of the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
Oscar Gonzales is a poet born in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. He has published three books of poetry, including Central America in My Heart (Bilingual Review, 2007), Amada en el Amado transformada (Editorial Guaymuras, 1995), and Donde el plomo flota (Editorial Universitaria, 1993). Gonzales graduated from Yale College and won Yale’s Theron Rockwell Field Prize for his book Donde el plomo flota (Where Lead Floats).
Allison Greer earned her BA in English and her MA in elementary education from the College of William & Mary and plans to begin teaching in Washington this fall. [End Page 555]
Ayesha K. Hardison is an associate professor of English at Ohio University. Her work focuses on black women’s writing, mid-twentieth-century African American literary history, and contemporary African American literature and culture. She is the author of Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (U of Virginia P, 2014), and her work has been published in Meridians. Her current research is on representations of the civil rights movement in twenty-first-century fiction and film.
Avery Irons is a writer and advocate for youth justice. She currently splits her time between Champaign, Illinois, and Los Angeles. Her work has also appeared in Ragazine.CC.
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins is a professor of English and multicultural studies at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. Rafiki’s work focuses on questions of authenticity in black speculative fiction and film.
Christopher Oie Keller, a former Victoria’s Secret supervisor, left the world of lingerie and now teaches chemistry and writing in Oregon. His publications include decomP magazinE, Steel Toe Review, Leveler, and The Delinquent. Thankfully, he managed to find and marry an incredible woman who appreciates the writing process.
Heru Keonte is currently a middle-school language...
