Contributors
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Greg Chase is a visiting assistant professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. His research interests include modernism, Southern literature, and contemporary American fiction; his scholarship has previously appeared in journals including Twentieth-Century Literature and Arizona Quarterly.
Gabrielle Everett received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and a PhD in English from Rutgers University. She has taught courses in African American literature and culture at Rutgers University and Brandeis University. Her current book project, Blushing Bitterly: An Affective and Literary History of Racial Uplift after Reconstruction, looks at Black writers as theorists of affect and examines the intersection of affect, uplift philosophy, and the African American novel.
Amanda M. Greenwell is an assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches English education and courses in literature for young people. Her current research focuses on U. S. literature for young people, particularly by investigating narrative techniques that confront institutionalized exclusionary norms and practices. Greenwell’s work has appeared in journals such as Children’s Literature; Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures; The Lion and the Unicorn; Studies in the Novel; and Studies in the American Short Story.
D. S. Harr is an Afro-Trinidadian emigrant residing in the United States. Their interests include the arts and education, as well as the utilization of science and technology for social and environmental justice. They are currently a sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying aerospace engineering.
Paul Henderson is a financial data and publishing executive based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He graduated with a BA in English literature from the College of William and Mary in 1998 and is currently a MA candidate in English at the Harvard Extension School.
Durell Thompson is a student, teacher, father, husband, and son. Through his poetry, he looks to explore the multifaceted connections that define the African American experience in the United States. Moreover, he uses his poetry as a way to embrace his roles as an educator, writer, and father, and to prepare his son to live and thrive as a black man. Thompson’s works have appeared in Bayou Magazine and Beacon: The Sam Houston State Review.
Mary Weems is a poet, playwright, author, performer, imagination-intellect theorist, and social/cultural foundations scholar. Weems is the author of thirteen books, including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (Brill/Sense, 2015) and Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2012). Both of her books of poems, An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles (Bottom Dog, 2008) and For(e)closure (Main Street Rag, 2012), were finalists for the Ohioana Book Awards. In 2015, Weems received the Cleveland Arts Prize’s “Emerging Artist Award in Literature.” She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
