Contributors
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BETO CARADEPIEDRA is the son of Panamanian immigrants, an inheritance he explores in his fiction. His stories have been featured or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Northwest Review, Huizache, Pangyrus Lit, and other journals. He is currently enrolled in the Brooklyn College Creative Writing MFA Program and resides in New York City. He is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel. He can be found online at www.betocaradepiedra.com.
BRETT CARR received his MA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where his research focused on the convergence of sports and performance, and his BA in Theatre Arts from Hendrix College. He currently works for a non-profit in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
MORGAN CHRISTIE is a poet whose work has appeared in Room, Aethlon, Hawai'i Review, Sports Literate, as well as others. Her poetry chapbook Variations on a Lobster's Tale was the winner of the 2017 Alexander Posey Chapbook Prize (University of Central Oklahoma Press) and her second poetry chapbook Sterling was released by CW Books. Her first full-length short story manuscript These Bodies was published by Tolsun Books and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction. Her most recent poetry chapbook when they come was released by Black Sunflowers Press (2021) and is featured in the Forward Arts Foundation's National Poetry Day exhibit. She is the recipient of Arc Poetry Magazine's 2022 Poem of the Year award and her collection People Without Wings is the winner of the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize (Digging Press, 2023).
C. LASANDRA CUMMINGS is a poet-scholar who currently studies and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
CHRISTINA DIXIE is a poet and a writer living in Orlando, Florida. Her works Sherbet Vines and Keep the Porch Light On (a PushCart Prize Nomination) were published on an online zine, Lucky Jefferson in the year 2021. In 2020, her poem "Art in Mockingbird's Sky" was published in Sonku Collective and her poem "Failed Intervention" was published in GUMBO Magazine. In 2019, Soul 7 literary magazine published her poetry: Peaches & Jazz, "Same Old Blues, and Truth's Speech"; and Eve's Poetry (website) Magazine published "Beloved's Robe: A Love Letter to Self." Some of her works can also be found on her blog https://tinaloves2write.blogspot.com and additional social media sites. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English: Creative Writing Track with a Minor in Humanities from University of Central Florida in 2007.
DR. DELIA DOUGLAS holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Master of Science in Sport Studies from Miami University (Oxford, OH). Her scholarship is interdisciplinary, drawing upon critical race and gender studies, Black diaspora studies, postcolonial studies and sport studies, and is attentive to the continuing significance of the legacies of enslavement, imperialism, and settler colonialism. She has taught at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Manitoba, and at selected US universities. Some of her written work has been published in the Journal of Black Studies, Gender Place and Culture, Sociology of Sport Journal, and the Journal of Sport and Social Issues. Dr. Douglas is currently the Director of the Office of Anti-Racism at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.
ROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays, Inciting Joy, will be released by Algonquin in October of 2022.
ANJULI GUNARATNE grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka and received her Ph.D. in English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities at Princeton University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Hong Kong's Society of Fellows in the Humanities and at Brown University's Pembroke...
