Contributors
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Nicholas Boggs, MacDowell Colony Fellow who teaches in the graduate program in liberal arts at Columbia University, has published in Callaloo, Mary: A Literary Quarterly, and James Baldwin Now, a collection of essays edited by Dwight McBride. Boggs curates the Queer Readings at Dixon Place on the Lower East Side in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn.
Cyrus Cassells, Professor of English at Texas State University (San Marcos), is author of five collections of poems, The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses, and The Crossed-Out Swastika (Copper Canyon Press, April 2012). His Still Life with Children, translations from the poet Francesc Parcerisas, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. He has also published in a number of periodicals, including Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. For his poems he has won a number of awards, including the William Carlos Williams Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He lives in Paris, France, and Austin, Texas.
Thadious M. Davis is author of four books: Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context. In addition to publishing books and numerous articles on African American and American literature, she has also edited the Penguin Classic editions of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1997) and Quicksand (2002), and (with James S. Leonard and Thomas A. Tenney) Satire or Evasion: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (1992). Davis is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership, is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She has published in Signs, American Quarterly, American Literary History, Women and Performance, and Callaloo.
Jennifer E. Henton is currently an assistant professor of African American literature, culture, and film at Hostra University.
Chester Higgins Jr., a staff photographer of the New York Times since 1975, is author of such books as The Black Woman (with Harold McDougall), Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans, 1850–1950 (with Orde Coombs), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey. His photography has been exhibited in a variety of venues in such cities as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dakar, Accra, Paris, Berlin, Montevideo, Caracas, Cologne, Stockholm, Vienna, and many others throughout the world. Higgins was born in Alabama and graduated from Tuskegee University. He lives in New York.
A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise, published by Tia Chucha Press (2001), which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. His second book, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, published by W.W. Norton & Co. (2004), was awarded an Anisfield-Wolf Award and listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times. Jordan was also awarded a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2004 and a Pushcart Prize in 2006, 30th Edition. Quantum Lyrics was published [End Page 308] in July 2007 by W.W. Norton & Co. He is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2007), and a United States Artist Williams Fellowship (2008). He is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Michigan.
Holly Karapetkova, an assistant professor of English at Marymount University, is author of Words We Might One Day Say (2010 winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Prize). She has also published in Verse Daily, Nimrod, River Styx, Connecticut Review, Confrontation, Southern Poetry Review, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, and other periodicals.
Lesley Larkin is Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches courses in American literatures and gender studies. She has published in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory and Canadian Review of American Studies.
Nathaniel Mackey, Professor of English at Duke University and editor of the journal Hambone, received the National Book Award in 2006 for Splay Anthem. He is also author of other books of poetry, including School of Udhra, Song of the Andoumboulou...
