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  • Contributors

Jide Aje, who earned a Fine Art degree from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife Nigeria before relocating to the United States to pursue a career in the field of creative design, has exhibited his work in such sites as New York, Detroit, Atlanta, and Washington DC.

Ifa Bayeza is author of a number of plays, including Amistad Voices, Club Harlem, Kid Zero, and Homer G & the Rhapsodies, for which she received a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays fellowship. For her play The Ballad of Emmett Till, which is printed in verse form in this issue of Callaloo, she received a 2007 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Center Fellowship, the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play, and in 2010, four Ovation Awards, four Drama Desk Critics Circle Awards, and six Backstage Garland Awards including Best Playwriting. She is also a lyricist, composer, director, and novelist. With her sister Ntozake Shange, Bayeza co-authored the novel Some Sing, Some Cry (2010), which she adapted as a musical, Charleston Olio, in 2011. In 2013, she will be mounting her innovative musical Kid Zero in a multimedia, interactive theater-for-young-audiences production. She is a visiting professor in the Department of Africana Studies and an artist-in-residence with Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University in Providence, RI.

Heidi E. Bollinger is an assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College (CUNY) in the South Bronx.

David Borman is a candidate for the PhD degree at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

Sarita Cannon is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses on modern American literature, the novel, and American autobiography. Her work has appeared in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Pembroke Journal, Richard Wright at 100, and The Black Scholar. She serves as Vice President of the Humanities Education and Research Association.

Andrew E. Colarusso earned the BA in comparative literature from New York University and is currently pursuing the MFA from Brown University. This native New Yorker is founding editor of The Broome Street Review.

Foster Dickson, who lives in Montgomery, Alabama, is a writer, editor, and teacher. He teaches creative writing at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. His most recent book is Children of the Changing South (McFarland & Co., 2011).

Paula Gallant Eckard is author of Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith and articles published in The Thomas Wolfe Review, CLA Journal, The South Carolina Review, Southern Literary Journal, and other publications. She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.

Vievee Francis, a native of Texas who recently received the MFA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), is author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State UP, 2006), her first collection of poems, which won the 2009 Rona Jaffe Award. Her poems have also appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Margie, Detroit's Metro Times, and Callaloo. Some of her work has [End Page 839] been selected for the prestigious Best American Poetry 2010. She was the 2009-2010 Poet in-Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Camille Goodison has published short fiction in Relief Journal and Steam Ticket. She has also published in Guernica, Calyx, and Teachers and Writers Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches English at the New York City College of Technology.

David Green is a PhD candidate in the program of American culture at the University of Michigan. His dissertation focuses on black lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers in twentieth century America.

Major Jackson is author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company (Norton, 2010), Hoops (Norton, 2006), and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of a Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Holding Company and Hoops were finalists for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature—Poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Pushcart Prize, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress...

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