Contributors
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John Brooks is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. His main research interests are abstractionist and experimental aesthetics in contemporary African American literature and performance, particularly as they pertain to representations of race.
Kenyon Gradert received his PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017 and spent the next year as a Volkswagen Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Heidelberg University's Center for American Studies. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the English department at Auburn University.
Kateema Lee is an associate professor of English at Montgomery College. Her forthcoming collection, Black Random (July 2020), explores joy, identity, violence, and the "brief, bright lives" of missing and forgotten black women in the District of Columbia.
Amy Lewis is an assistant professor of humanities and liberal arts at St. Norbert College. As a nineteenth-century Americanist, her research focuses on recovering the voices of enslaved African Americans, and her work has been published in Callaloo, by the digital scholarly network Media Commons, and in the Wisconsin English Journal.
David Mills is the author of two collections, The Dream Detective and The Sudden Country, a book prize finalist. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His poems have appeared in Obsidian, Kweli, Crab Orchard Review, and Colorado Review. He lived in Langston Hughes's landmark home for three years.
Sarah Sillin is an assistant professor of transnational American literature at Central Washington University. She has published essays in Early American Literature, Journal of American Studies, MELUS, Literature of the Early American Republic, and J19.
Carletta Carrington Wilson is a literary and visual artist. Her work can be found in Cimarron Review, Obsidian III, Calyx, The Seattle Review, Raven Chronicles, Make It True: Poems from Cascadia, and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, among others.
