January Gill O'Neil

January Gill O’Neil’s poems and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The MOM Egg, Crab Creek Review, Ouroboros Review, Drunken Boat, Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo, Babel Fruit, Edible Phoenix, Literary Mama, Field, Seattle Review, Stuff Magazine, Can We Have Our Ball Back.com, Read Write Poem, and Cave Canem anthologies II and IV. her first…

Mendi Lewis Obadike

Mendi Lewis Obadike makes literature, art, and music. She is the author of Armor and Flesh (2004), which won the Naomi Long Madgett Prize from Lotus Press. With her husband Keith Obadike, she composed The Sour Thunder, an Internet Opera and curated Crosstalk: American Speech Music (both from Bridge Records, 2004 & 2008). Their conceptual media artworks have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the New Museum,…

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Jadi Omowale

Jadi Z. Omowale is a writer, publisher, and teacher. She is co-owner of Three Sistahs Press, LLC an upstart, womanist publisher of books by women of color. She has had poetry published in Temba Tupu! Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait, Essence magazine, Cave Canem Anthologies 2003 and 2004, Welter, and the Black Review. She is a Cave…

Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa

Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa is currently completing an MFA in Poetry and an MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a Cave Canem, Callalloo and Lambda Literary fellow. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Some Call it Ballin, Matter, Crab Orchard Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere.…

Ladan Osman