- Contributors
Samuel Allen has had a varied career as poet and lawyer, and has taught at a number of universities, including Tuskegee, Wesleyan, and Boston, from which he retired in 1981. He has published four volumes of poems, the latest of which is Every Round and Other Poems (Lotus Press). His poem, “Harriet Tubman, aka Moses” is engraved in granite and permanently installed in the Ruggles Station of the Boston subway system.
David Anderson is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville. His essay on Sterling Brown in this issue of Callaloo is part of a larger project on the prevalence of ideas about social Darwinism and cultural evolution on African-American literature.
Deborah Barnes is an assistant professor of English at Gettysburg College, where she teaches courses in African-American literature, American literature, and women’s literature. She has published poems and critical studies in a number of periodicals and books, including Studies in the Literary Imagination, Langston Hughes Review, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, and Toni Morrison: Selected Criticism of Contexts and Texts.
Kimberly Benston is Professor of English and Director of the Faculty Seminar in the Humanities at Haverford College.
John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis & Clark College. As the literary executor of Ralph Ellison’s work and papers, he has edited Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison and Ralph Ellison’s short fiction collection, Flying Home and Other Stories. Callahan’s other publications include In the African Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth Century Black Fiction and The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and History in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Eugenia Collier, writer and critic, taught English at colleges and universities in the Baltimore-Washington area until her retirement from Morgan State University in 1996. She has published poems, personal essays, and short stories as well as scholarly and critical articles in numerous periodicals. She co-edited (with Richard A. Long) the two volume Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry. Her short stories are collected in Breeder and Other Stories (Black Classic Press, 1994).
Michael Collins edits the newsletter of Global Textile Network and teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. His articles and poems have been published in Parnassus, Oxford Companion to African American Literature, The New Leader, The World & I, Salamander, and Callaloo.
Marcia Davis, a short story writer, is a senior editor at Emerge magazine. This St. Louis, Missouri, born journalist has also been an editor and writer at The Washington Post and The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Nicole L.B. Furlonge is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and other agencies.
Ted Genoways is editor and founder of Meridian, a literary journal whose inaugural issue was published at the University of Virginia in April, 1998. A candidate for the M.F.A. degree in creative writing at the University of Virginia, he has published poems in Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, DoubleTake, and a number of other periodicals.
Kendra Hamilton is a candidate for the Ph.D. in English at the University of Virginia. She received the B.A. from Duke University and the M.F.A. in creative writing at Louisiana State University, and has also at the University of Houston and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. This South Carolina native has published poetry in New Delta Review and Callaloo.
Paula Giddings, a research professor in African and African-American studies at Duke University, is author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America and In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. She is also a journalist and published in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Nation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeune Afrique (Paris), Change, and The New York Times Book Review.
Michael S. Harper is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He is the first Poet Laureate of...