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JOSHUA BENNETT is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of four books of poetry and criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), and The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022). In 2021, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award for Poetry and Nonfiction.

MARQUIS BEY is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, and core faculty of Critical Theory, at Northwestern University. Their work concerns black feminist theorizing, transgender studies, abolition, and critical theory. The author of The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (Minnesota, 2020) and the forthcoming Black Trans Feminism (Duke, 2022), Bey is currently working on a collection of autotheory essays meditating on the relationship between blackness and cisgender.

ELIJAH BEAN is a poet and storyteller from Huntsville, Alabama. He teaches creative writing and public speaking workshops at various artists communities and universities in the South.

OLIVIA MILROY EVANS is a PhD candidate in English at Cornell University, where she holds the Shin Yong-Jin Fellowship for excellence in teaching and scholarship, and a former high school literature and rhetoric teacher. Her research focuses on fragmented and serial forms, from long poems and television shows to archipelagoes. In her dissertation, "Contemporary Documentary Poetry: Rhetoric, Poetics, Form," she explores how the documentary mode transforms both legal texts and poetic forms. Her work is forthcoming in Word & Image and Contemporary Literature.

JULIA MICHIKO HORI is a Fletcher Jones Foundation Postdoctoral Instructor in Contemporary Literature at the California Institute of Technology. She is a scholar of African diaspora literature and visual culture, Caribbean literature, postcolonial studies, and critical race studies, with strong overlapping interests in architecture, style, and design. Hori holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University with a Doctoral Certificate in African American Studies. Her current book project, Restoring Empire, explores the intersections of built space, violence, and narrative in the living legacies of British imperial rule and Caribbean plantation slavery. The book traces the enduring powers of colonial planning, plantation aesthetics, and imperial nostalgia from Empire's postwar decline into presentday battlegrounds of architectural restoration and cultural memory. Her scholarly writing has appeared in American Quarterly

JOVONNA JONES is a cultural historian and writer. She is working on her doctorate in African & African American Studies at Harvard University. She has written for Aperture Photobook Review and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Jovonna organized "The Black Studies Reading Room": monthly dialogues on contemporary Black art and literature at bookstores and galleries in the Boston area. She holds a bachelor's degree in African American Studies from Emory University. [End Page 146]

TYRONE S. PALMER is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Lecturer in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. His work has appeared in Qui Parle, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vinyl Poetry, The Offing, and The New Inquiry.

JARED SEXTON teaches African American studies and film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine.

D.M. ADERIBIGBE is from Lagos, Nigeria. His debut book of poems How the End First-Showed (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and a Florida Book Award. He's currently a PhD student in English at Florida State University.

RÉGINE ISABELLE JOSEPH specializes in francophone literature, postcolonial studies, feminism, and the political histories of the French Caribbean. She is presently finishing a book manuscript—Culture and Duvalierism—that focuses on the literary responses to the rising suppression of radical politics in mid-20th-century Haiti. Her recent archival work and forthcoming article on Marie Chauvet and Simone de Beauvoir (Yale French Studies, 2016) belong to her second book project—Haiti's Second Sex—which examines the politics of the literary market and the publication of French and Francophone women writers. Dr. Joseph holds an AB in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, and a PhD in French Literature from New York University.

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