Contributors
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John Akomfrah, OBE, founder of Smoking Dogs Films, is a screenwriter, film director, writer, theorist, artist, and curator, who was born in Accra, Ghana. From 2001 to 2007, he was a Governor of the British Film Institute, as well as Governor of Film London from 2004 to 2013. As a visual artist, he has exhibited in group and solo shows worldwide, including the Tate Britain in London, Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to showing his work at the Venice Biennale, he has also been featured in many international film festivals, such as the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, Utah, USA. For his extraordinary work in the arts and humanities, he has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2008), and honored with other awards such as the Grierson Award for Best Documentary (for Handsworth Songs, 1986), the European Cultural Foundation’s Princess Margaret Award (2012), and honorary doctorates from Goldsmiths, University of London, and from the University of the Arts London. He lives and works in London, UK.
Karin Amatmoekrim, who studied psychology and Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam, is the author of five novels: De man van veel, Het Gym, Titus, Wanneer wij wamen zijn, and Het knipperleven, as well short stories and essays. She also writes for De Volkskrant and NRC/Handelsblad. She was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, South America, from which she emigrated to the Netherlands in 1981, when she was a child of five years.
Joan Anim-Addo, who was born in Grenada in the Caribbean, is a professor of Caribbean literature and culture and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she teaches courses in other African Diaspora literatures. She is founding editor of Mango Season, the journal of Caribbean writing. Her academic writing and publications include Touching the Body: History, Language and African Caribbean Women’s Writing and Framing the Word: Gender and Genre. Her creative writing includes Imoinda, Haunted by History, and Janie, Cricketing Lady. She is co-editor of I Am Black, White, Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe, Interculturality and Gender, and Affects and Creolisation, a special issue of The Feminist Review.
A. H. Jerriod Avant, a native Mississippian who graduated from Jackson State University, received MFA degrees from Spalding University and from New York University. He has been a fellow in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and has also spent a two-year residency at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. He has published poetry in both online and print magazines, including The Louisville Review, Pinwheel, Boston Review, and Callaloo.
Desiree Bailey, a poet and fiction writer, is author of In Dirt or Saltwater (2016). Her poems and new fiction have also been published in Best American Poetry, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, and Callaloo. She has received fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, Poets House, Kimbilio Fiction, The Conversation, the Norman Mailer Center, Princeton in Africa, and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.
Ebony Bailey is studying for the PhD degree in English, with an emphasis on African American literature, narrative theory, and African American folklore, at The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Joshua Bennett, author of The Sobbing School (2016), delivered the Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2010 with the distinctions of Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. As a Marshall Scholar, he was awarded the MA in theatre and performance studies from the University of Warwick (UK). Recently, he received the PhD in English from Princeton University. In 2015 he was the winner of the National Poetry Series, and he has been a fellow in Cave Canem and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, as well as the winner of fellowships from the Josephine de Karman Trust and the Ford Foundation. Boston Review, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry are some of the journals in which his work has appeared. He is currently a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
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