Contributors
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Opal Palmer Adisa is author of eleven books of poetry and fiction, including It Begins with Tears, Until Judgment Comes, Tamarind and Mango Women, and Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories.
Christopher Barnes, who lives in New Castle in England, is author of Lovebites, a collection of poems. In 1998, he won a U. K. Northern Arts Writers Award.
Mariama Barry was born in Dakar, Senegal. She is author of two autobiographical narratives, La petite Peule and Le coeur n’est pas un genou que l’on plie. She currently works as a notary in Paris.
Lyn Graham Barzilai, a poet, is a native of Scotland living in Israel, where she teaches English literature at Haifa University and Oranim College.
Stella Bolaki received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a teaching assistant in English and American literature courses.
Leslie Chassagne, a freelance writer and painter, lives in Valley Stream, New York.
D. Phillip Clifford wrote the following of himself: “I am an adoptee reunited with my birth-parents. I am biracial, raised in the African-American culture. I am gay. And I have spent the better part of my life searching for my purpose. I write poetry to honor these experiences.”
Carrol F. Coates is Professor of French, comparative literature, and linguistics at the State University of New York in Binghamton. He is an associate editor of Callaloo, Co-Director of SUNY’s Translation Research & Instruction Program, and Series Editor for CARAF Books (Caribbean & African Literature in Translation), published by the University of Virginia Press.
Diana V. Cruz is Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Rita Dove, U. S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, is Commonwealth Professor of English of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). She is author of nine collections of poems, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah and the forthcoming Sonata Mulattica—A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play (W. W. Norton, April 2009). She is also author of two volumes of fiction—Fifth Sunday, short stories, published in the Callaloo Fiction Series; and Through the Ivory Gate, a novel—and widely produced play, The Darker Side of the Earth. Her song cycle Seven for Luck, with music by John Williams, debuted at Tanglewood in 1998. Her many literary and academic honors also include the 2006 Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service, the 1996 Heinz Award, the 1996 National Humanities Medal, and the 1993 NAACP Great American Artist Award.
Amani Elkassabany was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She has published short fiction in Women’s Lives, in Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out, and in the journal Mizna. She is a staff development teacher at Thomas Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland. [End Page 970]
Lucas Frank, who grew up in Mombasa in Kenya, lives in northern California.
Rashad L. Givhan is working on an MA degree in English/Creative Writing at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, where he is also a graduate assistant in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.
Kathy-Ann Hernandez, who was born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is an associate professor of educational psychological and assessment at Eastern University of Pennsylvania.
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Caribbean Review of Books, and the Jamaica Observer.
Kelly Baker Josephs, a specialist in Caribbean literature, is Assistant Professor of English at York College/CUNY. She is also Managing Editor of Small Axe, a Caribbean journal of criticism.
Guy Lancaster is author of the Queen of Purgatory and editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.
Nathaniel Mackey is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and literary critic, whose books of poetry include Eroding Witness (1985) and Slay Anthem, winner of the 2006 National Book Award. His most recent book is Bass Cathedral (2008), volume four of his ongoing epistolary fiction From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.
Brennan Maier, a native of Albany, NY, is a visiting assistant professor in American Studies and English at Trinity College in Hartford.
Vivian M. May is author of Anna Julia Cooper...
