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Contributors
Hyacinth L. Andersen writes poetry and short stories in her spare time. Her work has appeared in Black Magnolias Literary Journal, TimBookTu, and Vocal.media.
Lisa M. Anderson is professor in the School of Social Transformation, and associate dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate College at Arizona State University. Her research interests include African diaspora speculative fiction and representations of blackness (especially Black futures). Her most recent book, Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape, was published in May 2023 by Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Chuck Barrow is an award-winning illustrator and writer of fiction residing in Columbus, Ohio. He writes novels, short stories, essays, and poetry, and is a comics creator and cartoonist.
Nathan L. Grant is the editor of African American Review and associate professor of English at Saint Louis University.
Kassy Lee, a poet and Cave Canem fellow from San Diego, has been supported by the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and the Vermont Studio Center. She’s grateful to Augusta Savage’s enduring legacy for inspiring this persona poem. She is currently at work on her debut collection, and you can receive updates about her work at kassylee.substack.com.
Joe Lockard is associate professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports (Peter Lang, 2008) and coeditor of Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers (Syracuse UP, 2018).
Ndubuisi Martins is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many poetry magazines and journals, including African Writer Magazine, Ngiga Review, Lunaris Review, Wreaths for a Wayfarer, and Sorosoke. He has published two collections of poems, One Call, Many Answers (Createspace, 2017) and Answers through the Bramble (Grand Touch, 2021), the latter of which was longlisted for the 2022 Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) Poetry Prize, English Category.
M. Genevieve West is professor of English and chair of the Department of Language, Culture, and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University, the nation’s largest public institution primarily for women, where she teaches African American, American, and women’s literatures. Her scholarship takes intersectional, historically situated, archival approaches to the literary productions of American women writers. Recently, she edited a volume of Hurston’s Harlem Renaissance short fiction, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (Amistad, 2020), which made available for scholars and popular readers alike a number of “lost” stories. With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., she coedited the first comprehensive collection of Hurston’s essays and reportage, You Don’t Know Us Negroes (Amistad, 2022).
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.