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  • Contributors

Jessica L. Allen is a PhD candidate and graduate instructor in the English Department at the University of Missouri, where she teaches composition and introduction to literature courses.

Michael A. Antonucci teaches African American literature and culture courses in the Department of English and in the American Studies Program at Keene State College. His work has appeared in African American Review, American Studies Journal, Arkansas Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Obsidian II.

Daniel Arbino is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, where he is specializing in Caribbean literatures within the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department. He received his MA in Latin American literatures from the University of New Mexico in 2008, and he has published both academic and creative work in Nomenclatura, Divergencias, and Alud.

Frances R. Botkin is Professor of English at Towson University. She recently co-edited a special issue of Romantic Circles Praxis Series on Black Romanticism and is currently working on her book project, “You Don’t Know Jack: Tales of Three-Fingered Jack, a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780–2012.”

Lisa Connell, who recently received the PhD degree in French studies, is an assistant professor of French at the University of West Georgia.

Laurie Corbin, author of The Mother Mirror, is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of International Language and Culture Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. She has published in Romance Quarterly, Life Writing, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Women in French Studies, and Transformations.

Edwidge Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and winner of the International Flaiano Prize for literature, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in New York City. She is author of nine books, including The Farming of Bones (novel, the American Book Award and the Super Flaiano Prize), The Dew Breaker (novel-in-stories, the Story Prize), Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (essays), and Brother, I’m Dying (memoir, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award), and editor of two anthologies, Best American Essays, 2011 and The Butterfly’s Way. She lives in Miami, Florida.

Toi Derricotte is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and author of five books of poems, including The Undertaker’s Daughter, Tender, and Captivity. She is also co-editor (with Cornelius Eady) of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, and author of a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks, winner of the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction. Derricotte is currently a member of the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.

Aklilu Dessalegn, who received the BA and MA degrees from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), is currently a lecturer in English literature at Haramaya University. From 2004 to late 2007, he worked as a translator and editor for Ewket Leteninet Bego Adragot Dirijit [End Page 562] (NGO). He is author of Adam Reta as a Literary Existentialist: Textual and Descriptive Criticism and English-Tigrigna Dictionary, and translator of Knowledge for Health (two volumes).

Nuruddin Farah, born in Somalia, studied literature, philosophy, and sociology at Panjab University in India. He is author of From a Crooked Rib and a number of other award winning novels, including the trilogies of novels Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980–1983) and Blood in the Sun (1986–1999). For his publications of fiction and nonfiction prose, he has received such international prizes and awards as the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, France’s St. Malo Literature Festival’s prize, Italy’s Premio Cavour, Sweden’s Kurt Tucholsky Prize, and Berlin’s Lettre Ulysses Award.

Charles Farrar holds a business degree from Virginia State University, is a James Solomon Russell Scholar in Religious and Philosophical Studies, and has completed graduate work with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, London. His artwork has been exhibited in such major US cities as Albuquerque, Charlotte, St. Paul, Richmond, Atlanta, and New York, and his work has been on permanent loan with the State Department at the US Embassy in Madagascar. His corporate commissions include Bank of America, First Citizens Bank & Trust Company, and The David Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles. He has served as member of the Advisory Committee of...

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