Contributors
- Contributors
JEAN ANAPORTE-EASTON is an associate professor of English at West Virginia State College. Her work has appeared in such periodicals as 13th Moon and Mid-American Review. Breathing from the Belly: Etheridge Knight on Poetry and Freedom, a volume she is currently editing, will be published by the University of Michigan Press.
MARION BETHEL has published in The Massachusetts Review, River City, and other literary journals. In 1991, she was awarded the James Michener Fellowship at the University of Miami and, in 1994, the Casa de las Americas Prize for Guanahani, My Love, a book of poems.
CORNELIUS EADY is author of five books of poetry: Kartunes, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (winner of the 1985 Lamont Poetry Prize), The Gathering of My Name, You Don’t Miss Your Water, and The Autobiography of a Kikebox. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Traveling Scholarship.
PATRICIA SPEARS JONES is author of a play, Mother, and two volumes of poems, Mythologizing Always and The Weather That Kills. Her work has also been published in such periodicals as The American Voice, The Kenyon Review, The Black Scholar, Hanging Loose, and Journal of Southern Culture. She teaches a poetry seminar at Sarah Lawrence College.
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931–1991) is author of Poems from Prison, Belly Song and Other Poems, and Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems.
JOHN McCLUSKEY, JR., is author of two novels, Look What They Done to My Song and Mr. America’s Last Season Blues. He has also edited a number of books, including Blacks in Ohio History, The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher, and (with novelist Charles Johnson) The Black Male and the 21st Century (forthcoming).
GLORIA NAYLOR is a novelist, who also works in film and the theatre. Her published works include The Women of Brewster Place, which won a National Book Award, and Bailey’s Cafe. Most recently she edited Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers Volume II. She now runs One Way Productions, an independent entertainment company, whose mission is to bring positive images of the African-American community to film, stage and television, and to inspire children. She lives in New York City.
DARRELL ROSE, a native of New Orleans, is a painter and an African drummer. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
BOB SLAYMAKER has published poems in such periodicals as River Styx, Exquisite Corpse, Essence, Minnesota Review, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Quarterly, and Contact II. He lives in New York.
PATRICK SYLVAIN was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He has published in a variety of periodicals, including African American Review, Agni, Caribbean Writers, Essence, Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS is a professor of law at Columbia University. She is author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights, The Rooster’s Egg, and a number of essays on race, gender, culture, and the law.
RON WELBURN is an enrolled member of the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, a mentor for Wordcraft Circle, and chair of the Five Colleges, Inc., American Indian Studies Committee. He teaches American literatures at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His most recent collection of poems is Council Decisions (1990).
