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Julian Breandán Dean is assistant professor of English at York College/CUNY. His research is interested in tragedy as a form and how it is deployed in the postcolonial setting with special attention to Irish, Caribbean, and global Anglophone drama.

Adaeze Elechi is a Nigerian writer and filmmaker. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in her chapbook Harmattan (Bottlecap Press, 2019), and are forthcoming in the Black feminist anthology In Words of Our Own: Black Women & Being (Canadian Scholars & Women’s Press, 2025). Her poems have been performed at literary festivals, including the New York City Poetry Festival. She is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow and a Catapult Film Fund Research Fellow. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Robert Fernandez is the author of Scarecrow (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), as well as Pink Reef (2013) and We Are Pharaoh (2011), both published by Canarium Books. He is also co-translator of Azure (Wesleyan University Press, 2015), a translation of the work of Stéphane Mallarmé.

Marame Gueye is associate professor of African and African Diaspora Literatures at East Carolina University. Her work is on the verbal art of women, the intersections of gender and language, hip-hop and social change, and migration. Her creative work has appeared in Transition Magazine and Bellingham Review.

Keith Hood is a former janitor and window cleaner living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He retired from a job as a field technician for a Michigan electric utility after 32 years avoiding electrocution. He is the One Story magazine 2024 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow. His work has appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, The Forge Literary Journal, Vestal Review, and more.

Megan Howell is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland in College Park, winning both the Jack Salamanca Thesis Award and the Kwiatek Fellowship. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Nashville Review, and The Establishment, among other publications.

Yesmina Khedhir is a senior Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, the University of Debrecen (Hungary), and a former Fulbright scholar (FLTA) at Stanford University. Her research project focuses on studying the multiple aspects of cultural memory and trauma in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage novels. Yesmina has published several book chapters and articles in international academic journals related to her field of research. Her most recent article, “‘Tomorrow, I think, everything will be washed clean’: Water Imagery in Jesmyn Ward’s Post-Katrina Novel, Salvage the Bones,” is published in a collection of essays entitled Bodies of Water in African American Literature, Film, and Music (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023).

Amanie Mathurin is a Saint Lucian writer and poet who tells stories about Caribbean people, their history, culture, and the realities that shape their experiences. Her work explores issues central to the region, including migration, mental health, sexual violence, politics, and development. Amanie’s writing also focuses on themes of displacement, cultural identity, personhood, and human desire. She is currently working on her first novel and a short story collection.

Shy-Zahir Moses (they/them) is a poet and scholar from Dallas, Texas, pursuing an MFA in poetry at The University of Texas at Austin’s New Writers Project. Their work meditates on the intricate relationship and tension between queerness, Black Southern spirituality/religion, and reckoning with god/God/The Ancestors.

Nicole Ramsey is an assistant professor of Latina/o Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines formations of Blackness, identity, and nation in Latin America and the Caribbean through an interdisciplinary and Black diaspora lens. She is currently writing a book on the racial politics, negotiations, and performance(s) of Belizean national identity.

Daniel B. Summerhill is a poet and essayist who has earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts and The Watering Hole. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County and has published two collections of poems, Divine, Divine, Divine and Mausoleum of Flowers. His poems and essays appear in The Academy of American Poets, Indiana Review, Columbia Journal, Obsidian, Inkwell, The Wall Street...