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  • Contributors

Gaiutra Bahadur is a critic, an essayist, and a journalist who has written for the New York Times, Dissent, VQR, the Nation, Ms., Lapham’s Quarterly, the Guardian, and the LARB, among other publications. She is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (2013). Her short story “The Stained Veil” appears in the literary collection Go Home! (2018). A preview of her current project, which explores the idea of America through its twentieth-century entanglements with her home country, Guyana, appears in the Australian literary magazine the Griffith Review.

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels Soledad (2001) and Let It Rain Coffee (2005), a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is the editor of Aster(ix), a literary/arts journal, and her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Miami Rail. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, and her latest novel, Dominicana, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books in 2019.

Carlos Ulises Decena teaches at Rutgers University, where he chairs the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies. A queer studies scholar, he is the author of Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men (2011). His work has appeared in Small Axe as well as in other peer-reviewed publications. He is currently working on a manuscript called “Circuits of the Sacred.”

Scherezade García (whose work also appears on the cover of this issue), a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary visual artist, was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Through her practice of drawing, painting, installation, sculpture, animated videos, and public interventions, she creates contemporary allegories of history, colonization, and politics. Her work frequently evokes memories of a faraway home and the hopes and dreams that accompany planting roots in a new land. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, New York; the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport; and El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo. She has exhibited at museums and art centers such as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, New York; the Newark Museum of Art; the Sugar Hill Museum; and BRIC, Brooklyn.

Tao Leigh Goffe is an assistant professor and faculty fellow of social and cultural analysis at New York University. In 2019, she will begin a joint appointment as an assistant professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University. She specializes in the enmeshed vernaculars that emerge from histories of imperialism, migration, and [End Page 254] globalization, and her first book assembles an archive of visual, sonic, food, and ghost cultures. Her research is preoccupied with how the history of abolition, indenture, and decolonization frames the transpacific and transatlantic entanglements of African and Asian diasporas.

Maja Horn is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American cultures at Barnard College. Her research focuses on hispanophone Caribbean literatures, visual and performance art, gender and sexuality studies, and political culture. Her book Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014) foregrounds the impact of US imperialism on notions of Dominican masculinity and their reinterpretation by pivotal Dominican writers. She is currently completing a monograph on queer Dominican literature and visual and performance art.

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is the head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her publications include “No Pure Place for Resistance: Reflections on Being Ms. Mastana Bahar 2000” (2011) and “Modern Navigations: Indo-Trinidadian Girlhood and Gender Differential Creolisation” (2012). She is the coeditor of the anthology Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (2016) and is the executive editor of Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.

Ana-Maurine Lara is a poet, novelist, and playwright. She is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.

Minkah Makalani is an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem...

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