Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde

Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde, Ph.D., is a Memory Keeper, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, doula, Civic Reflection Dialogue trainer, and Powerful Conversations on Race facilitator. Her…

Elizabeth Acevedo

ELIZABETH ACEVEDO was born and raised in New York City and her poetry is infused with her Dominican parents’ bolero and her beloved city’s tough grit. She holds a BA in…

Opal Palmer Adisa

Diverse, innovative and multi-genre, Opal Palmer Adisa is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Charismatic and informed, Adisa’s concerns span the gamut from children to…

M. Saida Agostini

Saida is a queer Afro-Guyanese poet whose work explores the ways that Black folks harness mythology to enter the fantastic. Saida’s poetry can be found in Barrelhouse Magazine, the Black…

Joshua Aiken

Joshua Allen Aiken is a poet, researcher, and historian currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice and his work has been featured…

Jane Alberdeston Coralin

Abdul Ali

Abdul Ali—poet, writer, educator, and cultural worker – is the Andrew W. Mellon program coordinator at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). Ali has held distinguished teaching appointments at…

Lauren K. Alleyne

Shirlette Ammons

Shirlette Ammons’ most recent collection of poetry, Matching Skin featuring The John Anonymous EP was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2008. first collection entitled Stumphole: Aunthology of Backwoods Blood was…

Anastacia-Renee

Anastacia-Renee is an award-winning cross-genre writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDX speaker and podcaster. Renee is the author of (v.), (Black Ocean Press), Forget It (Black Radish Press) and Answer(Me), (Winged…

E.J. Antonio

Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father, and is the author of ‘To Sweeten Bitter’ and ‘The Perseverance’. He is a founding member…

Christina Archer

Derrick L. Austin

Derrick Austin’s first collection of poems, Trouble the Water, was selected by Mary Szybist for the 2015 A Poulin Jr Prize and is forthcoming from BOA Editions in Spring 2016.…

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Cameron Awkward-Rich is on the staff of Muzzle Magazine and his work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Seattle Review, The Journal, Vinyl, cream city review and elsewhere. He is currently a PhD candidate…

Gustavo Adolfo Aybar

Gustavo Adolfo Aybar is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he received his MA in Romance Languages & Literature. As a scholar he’s presented at the University…