Contributors
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Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City, and her writing is infused with both hip hop and the Dominican bolero of her upbringing. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from George Washington University and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been published in The Acentos Review and The Ostrich Review. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and a member of the 2013 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. She lives and works in Washington, DC, as a teaching artist for Split This Rock.
Aziza Barnes is a Los Angeles native brown woman poet living in Bedstuy, New York. Her first chapbook, me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun, was published in 2013 by Button Poetry Press. Her work has also been published in Muzzle, NYU’s The Grey Area, West 10th Literary Journal, PLUCK! and Callaloo. The recipient of the 2013–2014 NYU Gallery Prize for Radical Presence in Black Contemporary Art for her poem “descendants,” Barnes attended the inaugural Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop in the United Kingdom this fall.
Joshua Bennett hails from Yonkers, New York. He is a third-year doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, a participant in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and a teacher of 8th grade composition. His poetry has either been published or is forthcoming in Anti-, Tidal Basin Review, Drunken Boat, Storyscape, and Muzzle. He is also the founding editor of Kinfolks Quarterly.
Anthony Barrymore Bogues is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Critical Theory at Brown University, where he is also a professor of Africana studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He is also a curator and a founding associate director of the Center for Caribbean Thought at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonization, Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C. L. R. James, After Man Towards the Human: Critical Essays on the Thought of Sylvia Wynter, Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals, and Empire of Liberty: Power, Freedom, and Desire. He is currently a Mellon Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town, SA. As a curator, he sits on the scientific committee of the Grand Palais in Paris, where he is working on the planned exhibition Haiti.
Amy Hildreth Chen is currently a 2013–2015 Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Fellow at the University of Alabama conducting Outreach and Research Services on behalf of the Division of Special Collections. She recently received the PhD in English from Emory University, where she wrote her dissertation, “Archival Bodies: Twentieth-Century British, Irish, and American Literary Collections.”
Jasmine Nichole Cobb is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She recently received the PhD in Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her article on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave appears in American Literary History. [End Page 464]
Rachel Conrad is Professor of Childhood Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Her recent article on Gwendolyn Brooks’s Bronzeville Boys and Girls appeared in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.
Maurice Emerson Decaul, a former Marine, is a poet, essayist, and librettist, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, Sierra Magazine, Barely South Review, Epiphany, and others. His poems have also been translated into French and Arabic. He is a graduate of Columbia University and is currently working towards his MFA at New York University.
Inua Ellams, born in Nigeria in 1984, is an internationally touring poet, playwright, and performer. He has eight published books of poetry and plays. His first play, The 14th Tale, a one-man show which he performed, was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his third play, Black T-Shirt Collection, ran at England’s National Theatre. He is currently working on Barber Shop Chronicles and two volumes of poetry: # Afterhours and Of All the Boys of Plateau Private School, his first...
