Contributors
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mel chin is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including aspects of science, ecology, antiquity, art history, psychology, social constructions, and pop culture, as well as works that require multidisciplinary, collaborative teamwork. He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019. He lives and works in Egypt, North Carolina.
jaki shelton green, North Carolina Poet Laureate, teaches documentary poetry at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. Publications include Dead on Arrival, Masks, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the song, Feeding the Light, and i want to undie you. She has been named a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
allison janae hamilton (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, and video. In her work, Hamilton fuses land-centered folklore and personal family narratives into haunting yet epic mythologies that address the social and political concerns of today’s changing southern terrain, including land loss, environmental justice, climate change, and sustainability. The artist’s commitment to the land is driven by her own migrations, from Kentucky, where she was born, to Florida, where she grew up, to rural Tennessee, the location of her maternal family’s homestead, and to New York, where she currently lives.
jessica ingram (Nashville, Tennessee) works with multimedia and archives to explore the ethos of communities and notions of progress and resistance in American culture. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Oxford American, Vice, Wired, and California Sunday Magazine. Her monograph Road Through Midnight was published in 2020 by the University of North Carolina Press.
tommy kha (Memphis, Tennessee) received his MFA from Yale University. He is a Hyères Photography Grand Prix finalist and former resident at Light Work and Camera Club of New York. He likes to think he takes after his great-aunt, who “read too many books and went crazy.” He is based in New York City and Memphis.
michelle lanier is a folklorist, filmmaker, and museum professional. In 2018, she became the first African American director of North Carolina’s state historic sites. She has served as a faculty member at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for two decades. Michelle is the proud mother of Eden.
jessica lynne is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Art in America, The Believer, BOMB Magazine, and The Nation. She is currently at work on a collection of essays about love, faith, and the American South. Jessica lives and works in coastal Virginia.
teka selman is an independent cultural advisor who has been in the contemporary art world for over twenty years, collaborating with artists, collectors, and institutions as a curator, writer, and consultant. After honing her skills in Chicago, London, and New York, she relocated to North Carolina, drawn by the burgeoning art scene of the Southeast. She is cocurator—with Lauren Haynes—of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial, slated to open in venues across Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis in 2021. Teka lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband and two daughters.
christina snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University. She is author of the award-winning books Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2010) and Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press, 2017).
monique michelle verdin is an interdisciplinary storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in Southeast Louisiana. She is cowriter and producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love and her work is featured in a variety of environmentally inspired projects, including the multiplatform performance piece Cry You One, the essay collection Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, and the collaborative book project Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations. She is director of the Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and a member of Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative, working to envision just economies, vibrant communities, and sustainable...
