Contributors
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Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961)—fiction writer, poet, and political activist—was born in Gonaïves, Haiti. He authored the following texts: Compere General Soleil, Les Arbres Musiciens, L'Espace d'un Cillement, and Romanceros aux Etoile. He is a descendant of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. When Alexis returned from exile to Haiti in April 1961, he was captured and killed by Duvalier forces at Mole St. Nicholas.
Octavia E. Butler, who lives in Washington state, is author of a number of books of science fiction, including Mind of My Mind, Kindred, Clay's Ark, and Pattern-master, as well as the Parable series (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents). She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Lucille Clifton, Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1975–85), was recently awarded the National Book Award for her Blessing the Boats (2000). For her numerous books of poetry she has received many fellowships and awards, including the Shelly Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a selection as Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, a Lannan Achievement Award in Poetry, and the 1999 Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award. She serves on the board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts. Her poetry collection, The Terrible Stories, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Carrol F. Coates is an associate editor of Callaloo and a professor of French at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he teaches courses in francophone literature and in modern French literature. He has written extensively on literature in French language, as well as translated numerous texts from French to English. He is the editor of the francophone literature series published by the University Press of Virginia.
Earl Coleman has published poetry and prose in a number of periodicals, including Esquire, Pacific Review, Writers Review, Nimrod, Atlanta Review, Hawaii Review, and Callaloo. His first collection of poems, A Stubborn Pine in a Stiff Wind, was published in 2001.
Michael S. Collins, a Jamaican by birth, is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University (College Station) and an associate editor of Callaloo. He has published poetry and nonfiction prose in a number of periodicals, including The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander.
Thomas Sayers Ellis teaches African-American literature and creative writing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the MFA in creative writing at Brown University. He is the author of the chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero, a co-editor of On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists, and one of the three poets collected in Take Three. [End Page 844]
Percival Everett, an associate editor of Callaloo, is a professor and former chair of the English Department at the University of Southern California. A judge for the National Book Awards in 1998 and the Pen-Faulkner fiction competition in 2003, he is himself a prolific award-winning fiction writer. His recent works include American Desert, Erasure, Grand Canyon Inc., and Glyph.
Thomas Glave, a Callaloo book review editor, is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories and the forthcoming Toward Nobilities of the Imagination: Essays. He has recently completed a second collection of short fiction, The Torturer's Wife and Other Not-Fictions.
Kevin A. González is Renk Poetry Fellow at the MFA Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work has been published in Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, and Kestrel.
Myronn Hardy is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University. He is the author of Approaching the Center.
Michael S. Harper is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He is the first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island, a post he held from 1988 to 1993. This prize-winning poet is author of ten books of poems, including History Is Your Own Heartbeat, Song: I Want a Witness, Debridement, Nightmare Begins...
