Contributors
- Contributors
Memphis-based photographer houston cofield earned his MFA in photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has contributed to the New York Times, VICE, Wall Street Journal, and Zeit Magazin, among other publications. He is a fourth generation photographer of the American South.
patricia crosby is a photographer and founder of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, serving thirty years as its executive director. Raised in Milford, Ohio, she attended Catholic schools and graduated from Marquette University. She studied photography with Barbara Van Cleve at Mundelein College Chicago, folklore at the Smithsonian, and ethnic heritage at Alcorn State University. She served as a presenter at the Festival of American Folklife (1996).
maya doig-acuña is a Brooklyn-born-and-raised writer, scholar, and doula-in-training. She has been published in Remezcla, Latino Rebels, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is currently a doctoral student at Harvard University, researching and writing about Afro-Panamanian migration, community, and memory within a context of Black diaspora.
alexis pauline gumbs is author of the forthcoming The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony. She lives and loves in Durham, North Carolina, and is the cofounder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust.
cassandra klos (b. 1991) is a fine art photographer currently living between Durham, North Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts. She is a 2020 graduate of Duke University's Experimental and Documentary Arts MFA program. Her work has been exhibited across the United States, and has been published in TIME, National Geographic, Wired, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among other publications.
tiana nobile is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. A finalist for the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize, her writing has appeared in Poetry Northwest, the New Republic, Guernica, and the Texas Review, among others. Her full-length poetry debut, Cleave, is forthcoming in spring 2021 from Hub City Press. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more, visit www.tiananobile.com.
danielle m. purifoy is a writer, lawyer, and assistant professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves as board chair of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and as the Race and Place editor for Scalawag, a media organization devoted to storytelling and journalism in the South.
justin randolph is assistant professor of history at Texas State University, where he teaches US, southern, and oral history. He's currently writing a book on Black freedom movements and the police in rural Mississippi from Jim Crow to mass incarceration.
zandria f. robinson is author of This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South and Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, written with longtime collaborator Marcus Anthony Hunter. Her writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Scalawag, the Believer, and the New York Times. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for an essay she wrote for the Oxford American.
barbara sostaita is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Focusing on the Sonora-Arizona borderlands, her dissertation is an (auto)ethnographic experiment in practicing sanctuary everywhere. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Bitch, Teen Vogue, and Remezcla.
joseph m. thompson is an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University. His first book project, Cold War Country: Music Row, the Pentagon, and the Sound of American Patriotism (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press), examines the economic and symbolic connections between the country music industry and the US Defense Department since World War II.
