Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October, 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for The Talk of the Town. Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He has also written articles for The Nation and collaborated on film scripts for Swoon and Looking for Langston. In 2013, Als initiated a series of staged readings called Trouble in Mind: Lost Masterpieces from the African American Theater Canon, a joint venture between the A.R.T and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Als has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.
Radcliffe Bailey was born in 1968, in Bridgeton, New Jersey. He grew up in Atlanta, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991. From 2001 to 2006 Bailey taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2004) and was a visiting faculty member at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2006) in Maine. In 1996 Bailey received acclaim for his large mural Saints, a commission for Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. His work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the McNay. In 2014, Bailey’s art will be featured in The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias.
Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals, including Ten New Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010). She has represented British writing internationally, both independently and with the British Council, in countries that include Slovenia, New Zealand, India, and Azerbaijan. Her pamphlet collection Breadfruit was published by flippedeye in 2008, and recommended by the Poetry Book Society. Malika is currently a Cave Canem fellow. She has over fifteen years of creative writing teaching experience, and recently received an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmith University, where she is shortlisted for The Pat Kavanagh Prize. Malika was the inaugural Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her collection Pepper Seed was published by Peepal Tree Press in September, 2013. Email: malikabooker@gmail.com
Kerry Chance is an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University. She joined the Anthropology [End Page 171] Department as a College Fellow in 2011 after receiving a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled Living Politics, about governance and political mobilization in contemporary South Africa.
David Chariandy lives in Vancouver and is an Associate Professor of Canadian, Caribbean, and African diasporic literatures at Simon Fraser University. His first novel, entitled Soucouyant, was nominated for eleven literary prizes and awards, including the two major Canadian fiction prizes, the Governor General’s Award (finalist) and the Scotiabank Giller Prize (longlisted). His second novel, entitled Brother, is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House.
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar currently teaching in the Department of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. His The Last Darky was a finalist for both the 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in nonfiction and the Theater Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award. The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Techno-Poetics is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press, and he is currently Senior Editor of the newly revamped journal The Black Scholar (TBS).
Danielle Legros Georges is a Boston-based poet and writer with interests in Haitian and African American art, culture, and history. She is currently translating from French the poems of Haitian writer Ida Faubert. She teaches at Lesley University. Email: dgeorges@lesley.edu...
