About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue (Aquarius Press). She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and writing workshops with teens. Betts attended the Cave Canem workshop and is a graduate of the New England College MFA Program. For more information, visit www.tarabetts.net .
Veronica Golos is the author of A Bell Buried Deep, co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press), and nominee for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. She was a finalist for the Ann Stanford Prize and for the Tupelo Press Prize. She was a 2003 and 2005 recipient of three-month artist’s residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico, and most recently won the Creative Woman Scholarship from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Presently, she is working on a new book of poems, Vocabulary of Silence. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
Shahnaz Khan is associate professor of women’s studies and global studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of Aversion and Desire: Negotiating Muslim Female Identity in the Diaspora and Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women. Her current research examines the workings of nationalism, gender, and citizenship in South Asian cinema.
Sharmila Lodhia is an Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Scholar in women’s and gender studies and political science at Santa Clara University. She received her J.D. from Hastings College of Law and her Ph.D. in women’s studies from UCLA. Her research examines law and advocacy responses to violence against Indian women through a transnational lens.
Erica R. Meiners is involved with a number of local and national initiatives, specifically anti-militarization campaigns, prison abolition and reform movements, and queer and immigrant rights organizing. The author of Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies (Routledge 2007), and the forthcoming Flaunt It! Queers Organizing for Public Education and Justice, she is a professor of education and women’s studies at Northeastern Illinois University.
Nancy Marie Mithlo, an assistant professor of art history and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993 writing on the career strategies of contemporary Native American artists. Her initial interviews with [End Page 153] these artists form the basis of her recent book “Our Indian Princess”: Subverting the Stereotype (School of Advanced Research Press). Mithlo organizes contemporary art exhibits at the Venice Biennale utilizing indigenous curatorial methodologies. She was recently selected as a 2009–2010 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow to support the completion of her second book, which documents and theorizes the emergence of an indigenous arts presence at the Venice Biennale from 1999 to 2009.
Roxanne Swentzell spent two years at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before graduating from high school and then went on to the Portland Museum Art School. Her first piece of art was a clay dog made at the age of four. After formal training and the development of her own style, Swentzell began to create full-length clay figures that represent the complete spectrum of the human spirit. Swentzell focuses on interpretive female portraits, attempting to bring back the balance of power between the male and female, inherently recognized in her own culture. Though steeped in her own culture, Swentzell’s work demonstrates an astounding universality, speaking to people of all cultures.
Lu Zhang is currently an assistant researcher in American Studies and assistant director of the Institute for Global Governance Studies at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China. She completed her Ph.D. in women’s studies at Ohio State University. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory, violence against women, and gender and international relations. [End Page 154]
