Contributors
- Contributors
Frederick Luis Aldama, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Stanford University, is currently working on two book-length manuscripts, Hybridity, Mimesis, Ethnicity and Queer Subaltern: Reformings of Suffering and Ecstasy. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published in the Journal of Narrative and Life History, African-American Review, Stanford Humanities Review, and other journals.
Elizabeth Alexander is currently a fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. She is the author of two collections of poems, The Venus Hottentot and Body of Life.
Holly Bass, who contributes articles to the Washington Post and the Washington City Paper, teaches creative writing at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC.
Herman Beavers is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of A Neighborhood of Feelings (poems) and Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson.
Kenneth Bowman currently teaches theatre at California State University. At the writing of the article included in this volume, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at Cornell University. He has directed numerous plays by Ben Caldwell and is preparing a literary biography of the playwright. Bowman holds a PhD from the School of Theater, Film & Television at UCLA.
Doralee E. Brooks is a professor in the Developmental Studies Department of the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh. She has published poems in The Bridge and The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
Bill Buege has published poems in various periodicals, including Iris, The Madison Review, The New York Quarterly, and Christian Century.
Anthony Butts has poems forthcoming in Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (William Morrow & Co.) and in Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (Rhino Records). He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Dayton.
Ben Caldwell, a major theater voice during the Black Arts Movement, is author of a number of plays, including All White Caste, Family Portrait, Militant Preacher, Riot Sale, and Prayer Meeting.
Bebe Moore Campbell has published three novels—Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, Brothers and Sisters, and Singing in the Comeback Choir—and two nonfiction books, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage and Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and without My Dad. She has also published in numerous periodicals, including The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Ebony, Ms., The New York Times Book Review, Village Voice, and The Times Literary Supplement (London).
Jane Campbell is Professor of English at Purdue University, Calumet, and author of Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation of History. Her work has appeared in African American Writers, Obsidian, Black Women in America, The Oxford Companion to Women Writers in the U.S., and The Dictionary of Literary Biography. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Lucille Clifton, Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1975–85), has received many fellowships and awards for her poetry collections and children’s books, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a selection as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, a Lannan Achievement Award in Poetry, and the 1999 Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Writers’ Award. She serves on the board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts. Her most recent book, The Terrible Stories, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Lucille Clifton is featured in Callaloo (22.1 [Winter 1999]).
Carrol F. Coates, an associate editor of Callaloo, is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York in Binghamton. He has translated a number of Haitian works from French to English: Rene Depestre’s The Festival of the Greasy Pole, Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Dignity, and Jacques Stephen Alexis’ General Sun, My Brother.
Toi Derricotte is author of four books of poetry and a memoir, The Black Notebooks. The Black Notebooks won the Annisfield-Wolf Award in...
