Contributors
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Anna Borgström is a candidate for the PhD in English at the University of Uppsala University, Sweden, where she is writing her doctoral dissertation on Jamaica Kincaid.
Carolyn Briones recently graduated from the University of Chicago with a master's degree in African American literature and history.
Kit Candlin recently received the PhD in history at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is a fulltime fellow. His doctoral dissertation is entitled "Making Empires Work: Transnational Fluidity and the Politics of Advantage in the Atlantic World 1790–1820."
Gregory Michael Carter, a native of Houston, Texas, describes himself as an "interdisciplinary artist." He has studied at Morehouse College and Texas Southern University, and has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Houston and Miami.
Michael A. Chaney is an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Dartmouth College, and author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative. He has also published in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including Acoma: Revista Internazionale, MELUS, Gothic Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Narrative Theory, Southern Quarterly, and Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance.
Marc C. Conner is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is editor and co-editor of different texts, including The Cambridge Companion to 20th-century Irish Drama on Screen, Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, and The Aesthetic Dimensions of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable. He has also published articles in Studies in American Culture, Critique, South Atlantic Review, Shenandoah, and Studies in American Fiction.
Stef Craps, a native of Belgium, is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is author of Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation and articles published in Neophilologus, Textual Practice, Studies in the Novel, Canadian Review of American Studies, English Studies, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, European Journal of English Studies, The AnaChronisT, Critique, and Jaarboek voor Literatuurwetenschap 2.
Edwidge Danticat, who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is author of six books of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak!, The Farming of Bones, Behind the Mountains, The Dew Breaker, and Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490; editor of an anthology, The Butterfly's Way; and author of a memoir, Brother, I'm Dying. Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Korean, Italian, and other languages. She graduated from Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn and received a BA degree in French literature from Barnard College and the MFA degree in creative writing from Brown University. She lives in Miami, Florida.
Toi Derricotte, Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of four books of poems, Tender, Captivity, Natural Birth, and The Empress of the Death House; a sound recording, The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress; an autobiography, The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey; and a writing manual, Creative Writing: A Manual for [End Page 582] Teachers (with Madeline Bass). She is also editor (with Cornelius Eady) of an anthology, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. She and Cornelius Eady are, in fact, the founders of the Cave Canem writing workshops for African American poets. Derricotte has received a number of awards, fellowships, and honors, including the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Kermit Frazier has written for the stage and television, his most recent being Kernel of Sanity, which was produced last spring at Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre. Outside the Radio, An American Journey, Shadows and Echoes, Smoldering Fires (published in 2008 by Dramatic Publishing), and Sacred Places are some of his plays. He has also written for such television series as Ghostwriter, The Cosby Mysteries, Maya and Miguel, and The Wonder Pets. His articles, reviews, and short stories have appeared in a number of periodicals, including The Chicago Review, American Theater, Essence, and The New York Times Book Review. He is Professor of English and...
