Contributors
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Hosam Aboul-Ela, a resident of Houston, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and grew up in north Texas. He is author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), as well as critical articles in MELUS, American Literature, Edebiyaat, Arab Studies Journal, and Mississippi Quarterly. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches courses in world and English literatures and culture.
Betty Adcock, a sixth generation Texan from the historic town of San Augustine, is author of six collections of poems from the LSU Press, most recently Intervale: New and Selected Poems (2001) and Slantwise (2008). She has received a number of awards, including prizes, and fellowships, including the Texas Institute of Letters Prize, The Poets’ Prize, the North Carolina Governor’s Medal, 2 Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Now retired from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC, she teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
Mequitta Ahuja has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Anomalies at Rossi and Rossi Gallery in London. In 2008, she was awarded the Houston Artadia Prize and the Meredith and Cornelia Long Prize.
Ai, born Florence Anthony in Albany, Texas, is African American, Japanese, Choctaw, Cheyenne, Comanche, Dutch, and Scots-Irish. Her pen name, AI, means “love” in Japanese. She is author of seven books of poems, two recent ones being Dread (W. W. Norton, 2003) and Vice (W. W. Norton, 1999), which won the National Book Award. For her poetry, she has also received the American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation), Lamont Poetry Award (American Poetry Foundation), and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She teaches at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Rosa Alcalá, a native of New Jersey, is author of two chapbooks of poems, Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna) and Undocumentary (Dos Press). She has translated Lila Zemborian’s Guardians of the Secret (forthcoming from Noemi Press) and co-translated (with Mónica de la Torre) Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna). She is an assistant professor at El Paso’s University of Texas, where she teaches creative writing.
Dawolu Jabari Anderson, who studied at Texas Southern University, participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, “Day for Night.” A finalist for the 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize, he has also exhibited his work at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, Project Row House, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Christian Bancroft is a fourth-year student majoring in English at Texas A&M University in College Station.
Michele Prettyman Beverly is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She also teaches communications courses at Macon State College. [End Page 326]
John T. Biggers (1924–2001) is a major American artist, whose paintings, drawings, sculpture, and murals are known throughout the world. For thirty years, he served as professor of art at Texas Southern University, where he established the Department of Art and taught generations of Texas and other American artists. Much of the work of this North Carolina native is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Howard University, and Pennsylvania State University, where he was awarded the PhD degree. The cultures and ancestral arts of the Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria, as well as history and life of the U. S. American South, profoundly informed the work of John Biggers.
Bruce Bond is Regents Professor at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review. His books of poems include Blind Rain, Radiography, and The Throats of Narcissus. Etruscan Press will publish Peal, his next poetry collection in 2010.
Crystal Boson, a graduate of the University of Missouri (Columbia), received the MA degree in English from Texas A&M University in 2008.
Catherine Bowman, a native of El Paso, Texas, is Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her collections of poems are The Plath Cabinet, Rock Farm, Notarikon, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, which won the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize...
