Contributors
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A. H. Jerriod Avant is a native of Longtown, Mississippi. He received a BS degree from Jackson State University and is currently studying for the MFA degree in creative writing at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. His poems have appeared in such periodicals and anthologies as The Louisville Review, PLUCK!, Journal of Affrilachain Arts and Culture, Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, and the Prison Industrial Complex Issue of Tidal Basin Review.
B. Christine Arce is currently an assistant professor at the University of Miami. She has published in Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music, Lecciones de errancia: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo, Chasqui, and Arquitetura da Memória.
Iona Rozeal Brown, a native of Washington, DC, holds academic degrees from the University of Maryland, the San Francisco School of Art, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Yale University School of Art. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in Germany, India, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as in many cities in the USA, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York.
Alyss Dixson, an Oregon native, has worked in different venues in the film industry—at New Line, as assistant; at Rat Entertainment, as Head of Film Development and Production; and at Paramount Pictures, as Vice-President of Production, Worldwide. She has worked on the production of such films as Money Talks, Rush Hour 1 & 2, Family Man, Paid in Full, and Double Take.
Brent Hayes Edwards is a professor of English at Columbia University and the author of The Practice of Diaspora (2003). He is currently working on a cultural history of “loft jazz” in downtown New York in the 1970s and on a translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa, for which he was awarded a 2012 PEN Translation Fund Grant.
Ramzi Fawaz recently received the PhD degree in American studies from George Washington University and is a visiting lecturer in English and American studies at George Washington University and Georgetown University. His work has been published in American Literature and Anthropological Quarterly.
Vievee Francis, a native of Texas who recently received the MFA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), is author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State UP, 2006), her first collection of poems, which won the 2009 Rona Jaffe Award, and Horse in the Dark (Northwestern UP, 2012). Her poems have also appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Margie, Detroit’s Metro Times, and Callaloo. Some of her work has been selected for the prestigious Best American Poetry 2010. She was the 2009–2010 Poet-in-Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.
Jonterri Gadson recently received the MFA from the University of Virginia. She has published poems in Poetry Quarterly, Tidal Basin Review, PANK, The Rumpus, and other periodicals. She is currently a Herbert W. Martin Post Graduate Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton in Ohio. [End Page 1123]
Thomas Glave, Professor of English at State University of New York in Binghamton, is author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award), and The Torturer’s Wife; and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (winner of a 2008 Lambda Literary Award). Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh is forthcoming from Akashic Books in 2013. He is a 2012 Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the UK.
Keith M. Harris is an associate professor of English and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has published poems in Corpus, Queen: A Journal of Power and Rhetoric, Road Before Us, and My Brother’s Keeper. His essays have appeared in Wide Angle, The Spike Lee Reader, Richard Pryor: The Life and Legacy of a “Crazy” Black Man, and War Diaries. He is also author of Boys, Boyz, Bois: An Ethics of Masculinity in Popular Film, Television and Video, published by Routlege in 2006.
Danielle C. Heard, who recently received the PhD degree from Cornell...
