Contributors
- Contributors
Herman Beavers (hbeavers@english.upenn.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1989. He is author of the book Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson (1995), as well as over twenty-five articles and book chapters. He either has served or is serving on the editorial boards of American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Literary Studies, and African American Review. His creative works include the chapbook A Neighborhood of Feeling and poems that have appeared in Black American Literature Forum (now African American Review), Dark Phrases, The Cincinnati Poetry Review, Cross Connect, Peregrine, Callaloo, and the anthology Gathering Voices. He is a 2009-2010 Visiting Fellow at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. He is coediting with Fanonne Jeffers the two-volume collection of essays Changing Chords: African American Poets on Poetry and Poetics (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press) and completing work on a scholarly monograph on the cultural politics of Afro-modernist expressive culture.
David A. Colón (david.colon@tcu.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English and Latino Studies at Texas Christian University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, The Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, Hispanet Journal, Studies in American Culture, The Stanford Black Arts Quarterly, HOW2, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. He is a Contributing Editor of Latino Poetry Review.
Michael Dowdy (mdowdy@hunter.cuny.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, where he teaches US and Latin American poetry as well as US Latina/o and other multi-ethnic literatures. He has been a faculty fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. His current and forthcoming publications focus on hiphop, Yusef Komunyakaa's poetics of disaster, poetic representations of Latin American plazas, José Emilio Pacheco's Mexico City ecopoetics, and Appalachian Latino literature. He has published a book, American Political Poetry into the 21st Century (2007), and a chapbook of poems, The Coriolis Effect (2007). He is working on a book project about the poetics of "Broken Souths," discussed in his contribution to this issue of MELUS. [End Page 213]
Martín Espada (mespada@english.umass.edu) is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda. He has published seventeen books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. Two more books are forthcoming: The Trouble Ball (Norton, 2011), a collection of poems, and The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (University of Michigan Press, 2010), a collection of essays. The Republic of Poetry, a collection of poems published in 2006, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books of poetry include Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (2008), Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (2003), A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen (2000), City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993), and Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands (1990). He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His work has been translated into ten languages; collections of poems have recently been published in Spain, Puerto Rico, and Chile.
Marie Fleischmann Timbreza (mariefleischmann@gmail.com) is a writer, singer, educator, and performer. Active in the social justice movement and literary/arts community for twenty years, she produces and promotes writers, performers, and screen and stage events.
Shamala Gallagher (shamala.gallagher@gmail.com) is an MFA candidate at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. While in the Bay Area, she attended Stanford University and worked as a case manager for homeless families in the Tenderloin District.
Ana Garza G'z (ana.garza.gz@gmail.com) is a community interpreter and translator who holds an MFA from California State University, Fresno. Twenty-two of her poems have appeared in print. Some can be found on the Web at Salt River Review, Willows Wept Review, The Able Muse...
