Contributors
- Contributors
Opal Palmer Adisa is author of a number of books of poetry and fiction, including Until Judgment Comes, I Name Me Name, Traveling Women, The Tongue Is a Drum, Tamarind and Mango Women, and It Begins with Tears. She is a professor of creative writing and literature at California College of the Arts.
Jeannette Allsopp is author of The Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora Fauna and Foods in English, French, French Creole and Spanish. She teaches at the University of the West Indies in Cave Hill, Barbados.
Ronald Augusto is author of Disco and Puya, two collections of poems. He lives in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
LaShonda K. Barnett, who teaches history at Sarah Lawrence College, is author of two short story collections, Callaloo and Broken Shoes for Walking. Her I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft will be published in 2007.
Samiya Bashir is author of Where the Apple Falls, a volume of poems, and editor of Best Black Women's Erotica 2 and (with Tony Medina & Qurasysh Ali Lansana) Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art.
Edward Baugh, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), is author of Derek Walcott and editor of Walcott's Selected Poems. Baugh's second book of poems, It Was the Singing, was published in 2000.
Karina L. Céspedes, who was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in New Jersey, received her Ph. D. in ethnic studies from the University of California (Berkeley). She co-edited (with Shona N. Jackson) this issue of Callaloo.
Leah Chase, a nationally known chef, and her husband, Edgar "Dooky" Chase II, a musician, are owners of the internationally known New Orleans establishment Dooky Chase Restaurant, which was founded by her husband's parents in 1941. She is author of And Still I Cook, The Dooky Chase Cookbook, and Down Home Healthy: Family Recipes of Black American Chefs. For her work as a chef, restuaranteur, and community leader, she has received numerous awards and other honors.
Albert Chong is a professor of art and art history at the University of Colorado (Boulder). The multi-media work of this award-winning artist has been exhibited in Barbados, Cuba, and throughout the United States.
Patricia E. Clark is an assistant professor of English and Program Director of African and African-American Studies at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Carrol F. Coates is Professor of French and comparative literature at the State University of New York (Binghampton) and editor of the CARAF Books series (University Press of Virginia). His publications include numerous studies of modern French and francophone literatures, and translations of novels by such writers as René Depestre, Ahamadou Kourouma, and Jacques-Stephen Alexis.
Teresa Cohen is a practicing physician and a member of the teaching faculty at the School of Medicine in Luanda, Angola. In 1988, she co-founded the Society of Woman [End Page 406] and AIDS in Africa (SWAA). In addition to serving as Vice Minister of Health of Angola, she has worked with a number of groups to fight AIDS and to help address women's health issues.
Merle Collins, who teaches in the English Department at the University of Maryland, is author of books of poetry and fiction, including Rain Darling, Angel, The Colour of Forgetting, Rotten Pomerack, and Because the Dawn Breaks.
Kyle G. Dargan, a graduate of the University of Virginia, recently received the MFA in creative writing from Indiana University (Bloomington), and is now completing the MA degree in arts administration at American University in Washington DC. Bouquet of Hungers, his second collection of poems, will be published this fall by the University of Georgia Press, which brought out his first volume, The Listening (winner of the Cave Canem Prize) in 2004. He is managing editor of Callaloo.
Marie-Ovide Gina Dorcely is a poet, translator, and nonfiction prose writer. She has received awards for her writing from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Breadloaf Writers Conferences. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Caribbean Writer, and The Portable Lower East Side. She was born in Haiti.
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