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You can read about them if you click the images below. Updated weekly.<\/h3>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.1.0\/svg\/2b50.svg\" alt=\"\u2b50\" \/> Click <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/the-nbwc-2022-program\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to explore the full program and to register. <em><strong>NBWC2022 is all virtual this year. All are welcome!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Keisha-Gaye-Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"Keisha-Gaye-Anderson\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Keisha-Gaye Anderson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Keisha-Gaye Anderson<\/b> is a Jamaican-born poet and visual artist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the author of<i> Everything Is Necessary, Gathering<\/i> <i>the Waters<\/i>, and <i>A Spell for Living<\/i>. Her poems, essays, and fiction have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals.\u00a0Keisha is a past participant of VONA and Callaloo writing workshops and was short- listed for the Small Axe Literary Award. In 2018, she was selected as a Brooklyn Public Library Artist-in-Residence. She was presented with the Poetic Icon Award from her alma mater Syracuse University in 2021. Her visual art has been featured in numerous exhibitions in the tri-state area and in such literary journals as <i>The Adirondack Review<\/i>,<i> Joint Literary Magazine<\/i>, <i>MER VOX<\/i>,<i> Culture Push<\/i>, and<i> No, Dear Magazine<\/i>. Keisha holds an MFA from The City College, CUNY. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keishagaye.ink\">www.keishagaye.ink<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Keisha-Gaye Anderson<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/SteveBarnes.jpg\" alt=\"SteveBarnes\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Steven Barnes<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Steven Barnes<\/b> is a <i>New York Times<\/i> best-selling author of more than 30 novels of science fiction, horror, and suspense.\u00a0The NAACP Image, Endeavour, and Cable-Ace Award-winning author also writes for television including <i>The Twilight Zone<\/i>, <i>Stargate SG-1<\/i>, <i>Andromeda<\/i>, and an Emmy Award-winning episode of <i>The Outer Limits<\/i>. He created the &#8220;Lifewriting&#8221; system of high-energy creative living, and has lectured at\u00a0UCLA, Seattle University, and the Smithsonian Institution.\u00a0Barnes lives in Southern\u00a0California with his wife, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tananarive Due.<\/p>\n\t<p>Steven Barnes<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Stacey-Barney.jpg\" alt=\"Stacey-Barney\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Stacey Barney<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Stacey Barney<\/b> is associate publisher of Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.\u00a0Stacey has worked in children&#8217;s publishing for 20 years and has published numerous best-selling and award-winning authors including\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0best sellers Ren\u00e9e Ahdieh, Krystal Sutherland, Misty Copeland, Katherine Arden, Ellen Hopkins, and Ayana Gray. She also edited the 2022 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor-winning\u00a0<i>Nina: A Story of Nina Simone<\/i>, written by Traci N. Todd and illustrated by Christian Robinson, in addition to the 2021 Caldecott Honor-winning\u00a0<i>The Cat Man of Aleppo<\/i>, written by\u00a0Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. In 2020, ALAN awarded Stacey the Bill Konigsberg Award for Acts and Activism for Equity and Inclusion through Young Adult Literature, noting her commitment to making books that are &#8220;real, accessible, complex and integral components to a just and connected world.&#8221; In 2021, Stacey was honored at the Black Women in Media Awards for her work, contributions, and demonstration of excellence in literature and publishing.<\/p>\n\t<p>Stacey Barney<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lindamichelle-Baron.jpg\" alt=\"Lindamichelle-Baron\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Lindamichelle Baron<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Lindamichelle Baron<\/b>, a former New York City public school teacher, is an associate professor in the Teacher Education Department at York College, City University of New York (CUNY), in New York City. Her academic journal articles and book chapters focus on literacy and the social and emotional intelligences; and culturally responsive, critical pedagogy.\u00a0 Dr. Baron has been publisher and president of Harlin Jacque Publications, a publishing and educational consulting firm for more than 30 years. As an author and poet, Lindamichellebaron&#8217;s (Dr. Baron&#8217;s pen name) poetry collections include <i>The Sun Is On<\/i> (listed as a recommended book for New York State middle schools), <i>Rhythm &amp; Dues: Poetry and Ideas<\/i>; and <i>For the Love of Life: Life Lyrics from an Oral Tradition<\/i>. Several of her narratives for children include <i>Anthony Ant and Grady Grasshopper<\/i>, <i>The Lion and The Man: A Fable<\/i>, and <i>No More Chocolate Chips<\/i>. She co-authored a language arts textbook series, published by Pearson, and her work has also appeared in several anthologies for children and adults. Her work has also been produced dramatically in community theater, college productions, and Off-Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Baron has received numerous awards as an educator, author, entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and performing artist. Baron was awarded Educator of the Year by the Middle School Principals Association, and Women of the Americas Service Award for contributions to the Field of Literature.\u00a0 She was also designated one of the 25 Influential Black Women in Business by The Network Journal. Baron lives in Hempstead, New York, where she was honored with the official designation of Village Griot. You can find out more about Dr. Baron on her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindamichellebaron.com\/\">www.mylindamichellebaron.com<\/a><\/p>\n\t<p>Lindamichelle Baron<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MoBeasley.jpg\" alt=\"MoBeasley\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Mo Beasley<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mo Beasley, a Universal Man in the world of theater and performance, is an award-winning poet, published writer, arts educator, and activist. In 2006, the New York Daily News heralded him as one of &#8220;50 Unsung New York Heroes,&#8221; citing his selfless work uplifting the arts for youth and adults alike. Beasley, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Howard University, is currently a technical director for the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts in Florida. The Boston-born, Miami Beach-based artist is widely respected for his passion for the arts and his advocacy for the healing power of art. His gifts are embedded in all his expressions, on the stage, on the page.<\/p>\n<p>AUTHOR: Be a Father to Your Child (Counterpoint Press); No Good Nigga Bluez (Scripted Linguistics). PLAYWRIGHT: Iced Out Shackled and Chained&#8230; (National Black Theater Festival); You A Man Now? (Passage Theatre) No Good Nigga Bluez (NY International Fringe Festival). ARTS EDUCATOR | PUBLIC SPEAKER: The National Black Writers Conference, CatalystCon, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Community Service Society of New York, Penn State Black Lawyers Association. FEATURED POET: Blue Note, Minton&#8217;s Playhouse, Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9, BAMcafe, Joe&#8217;s Pub, NJ Performing Arts Center, Bowery Poetry Club, and the American Museum of Natural History. PRODUCER: Mo Beasley&#8217;s UrbanErotika and LoveSuites. STAGE MANAGER: Broadway&#8217;s Bring In Da Noise\/Bring In Da Funk; Off-Broadway&#8217;s Blue Man Group, Boys Choir of Harlem, Crossroads Theatre, and Freedom Theatre.<\/p>\n\t<p>Mo Beasley<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EmilyBernard.jpg\" alt=\"EmilyBernard\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Emily Bernard<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Emily Bernard<\/b> is the author of\u00a0<i>Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother&#8217;s Time, My Mother&#8217;s Time, and Mine<\/i>, winner of the 2020 <i>LA Times<\/i> Christopher Isherwood Prize. Her previous books include\u00a0<i>Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten<\/i>\u00a0and, with Deborah Willis, <i>Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs<\/i>, which received a 2010 NAACP Image Award. Her work has appeared in\u00a0<i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New Republic<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New Yorker<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>O, the Oprah Magazine<\/i>. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Arts Council, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Emily Bernard lives with her family in Vermont.<\/p>\n\t<p>Emily Bernard<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NBWC2022Honoree_HerbBoyd_ByNPR.jpg\" alt=\"NBWC2022Honoree_HerbBoyd_ByNPR\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Herb Boyd<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Herb Boyd<\/b> is an award-winning author and journalist who has published a number of books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers.\u00a0His most recent book is <i>Harlem Renaissance Redux<\/i>. His book <i>Black Detroit: A People&#8217;s History of Self-Determination <\/i>received several awards, including a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.\u00a0Among his other books include <i>The Diary of Malcolm X: <\/i><i>El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964, <\/i>by Third World Press, co-edited with Malcolm&#8217;s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, and <i>By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented<\/i>, co-edited with Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti, Dr. Ron Daniels, and Dr. Maulana Karenga. His 1995 book <i>Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America-An Anthology, <\/i>co-edited with Robert Allen of the <i>Black Scholar<\/i> journal, won the American Book Award for Nonfiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Boyd worked with world music composer Yusef Lateef on his autobiography\u00a0<i>The Gentle Giant<\/i>, which was published by Morton Books of New Jersey. In 2008, he published\u00a0<i>Baldwin&#8217;s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin<\/i>. He is currently working with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp on several projects. Boyd has been inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame as a journalist, and the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.\u00a0Boyd teaches African American history and culture at the City College of New York in Harlem where he lives.<\/p>\n\t<strong>HERB BOYD<br \/>\n<\/strong> (NBWC2022 Honoree)\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EricaBuddington.jpg\" alt=\"EricaBuddington\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Erica Buddington<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Erica Buddington<\/b> is an edupreneur, historian, creative strategist, and first-generation Caribbean-American whose work intersects Black history and pop culture. Buddington is now the founder\/CEO of Langston League, a multiconsultant curriculum firm that specializes in teaching educators to design and implement culturally responsive instructional materials.\u00a0Langston League&#8217;s\u00a0clients include Jordan Peele&#8217;s\u00a0MonkeyPaw Productions, McGraw Hill, NBCUniversal, Harlem Children&#8217;s Zone, Morgan State University, Medgar Evers College, and more. Most recently, they designed a companion guide for\u00a0<i>Candyman 2021&#8217;s<\/i>\u00a0social impact initiative and are launching a Black history series with Microsoft Flipgrid. Currently, Buddington hosts a Black history show on YouTube entitled\u00a0<i>Decolonized<\/i>\u00a0and co-writes the late-night segment\u00a0&#8220;How Did We Get Here?&#8221;\u00a0for <i>The Amber Ruffin Show<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Erica Buddington<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Carolyn-Butts.jpg\" alt=\"Carolyn-Butts\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Carolyn Butts<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Bio coming soon.<\/p>\n\t<p>Carolyn Butts<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarke.jpg\" alt=\"clarke\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Chief Baba Neil Clarke<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Chief Baba Neil Clarke<\/strong> is a master African-centered percussionist, independent scholar, and former fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. An award-winning musician, Chief Baba Neil has collaborated and performed with countless revered artists all over the world, including <strong>Dianne Reeves<\/strong>, <strong>Phyllis Hyman<\/strong>, <strong>Third World<\/strong>, <strong>David Sanborn<\/strong>, <strong>Miriam Makeba<\/strong>, <strong>Letta Mbulu<\/strong>, NEA Jazz Master<strong> Randy Weston<\/strong>, and<strong> Mr. Harry Belafonte<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Baba Neil&#8217;s grounding in Yoruba and Orisa traditions (and other African spiritual systems) began when he was 13. He has since been initiated as an Ol&#8217;Osun in the Lucumi tradition for more than 30 years. In Nigeria, Clarke was installed as a chief by all the highest-ranking priests there. The honor was bestowed based on his life-long commitment to traditional African culture and values. He is now Chief Baba Neil Adewede Ayanlere Tokode Clarke, Alufopejo Awo of Osogbo.<\/p>\n\t<p>Chief Baba Neil Clarke<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/JelaniCobb.jpg\" alt=\"JelaniCobb\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Jelani Cobb<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Jelani Cobb<\/strong> is the director of the Lipman Center for Journalism in Civil and Human Rights at Columbia University and a professor at Columbia Journalism School. He has been a staff writer at <em>The New Yorker<\/em> since 2015 and in 2018 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He is the author and editor of six books including the recently published <em>The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker<\/em>. His 2020 film <em>Whose Vote Counts?<\/em> received the Peabody Award for News Documentary. He is also the author of <em>The Essential Kerner Commission Report<\/em>, which came out in fall 2021; his earlier book <em>The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress<\/em> was reissued in 2020.<\/p>\n\t<p>Jelani Cobb<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MonicaColeman_PhotoBy_AnnBlakePhotography.jpg\" alt=\"MonicaColeman_PhotoBy_AnnBlakePhotography\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Monica Coleman<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Monica A. Coleman<\/b>\u00a0is professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. She spent more than 10 years in graduate theological education at Claremont School of Theology and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Answering her call to ministry at age 19, Dr. Coleman brings her experiences in evangelical Christianity, Black church traditions, global ecumenical work, and indigenous spirituality to her discussions of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Coleman is the author or editor of six books and several articles that focus on the role of faith in addressing critical social and philosophical issues. Her memoir\u00a0<i>Bipolar Faith<\/i>\u00a0shares her lifelong dance with trauma and depression, and how she discovers a new and liberating vision of God. Her book\u00a0<i>Making a Way Out of No Way<\/i>\u00a0is required reading at leading theological schools around the country. Dr. Coleman co-hosted the web series &#8220;Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today&#8217;s Pandemic.&#8221; Coleman speaks widely on mental wellness, navigating change, religious diversity, mental wellness, and religious responses to intimate partner violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Monica A. Coleman<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Brittney-Cooper-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Brittney-Cooper-2022\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Brittney Cooper<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Brittney Cooper<\/b> is author of the <i>New York Times<\/i> bestseller\u00a0<i>Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.\u00a0<\/i>She is also author of the award-winning\u00a0<i>Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women<\/i>, co-author of\u00a0<i>Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood<\/i>, and co-editor of\u00a0<i>The Crunk Feminist Collection.\u00a0<\/i>Brittney is associate professor of Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n\t<p>Brittney Cooper<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KiaCorthron.jpg\" alt=\"KiaCorthron\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Kia Corthron<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Kia Corthron<\/b> is a novelist and playwright. Her second novel,\u00a0<i>Moon and the Mars<\/i>, released in August 2021, was championed by Robin D.G. Kelley, Sarah Schulman, and others, receiving rave reviews in the\u00a0<i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Irish Times<\/i>, and elsewhere. Her debut,\u00a0<i>The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter<\/i>, endorsed by Angela Davis and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, won the 2016 First Novel Prize from The Center for Fiction and was a\u00a0<i>New York Times Book Review<\/i>\u00a0Editors&#8217; Choice. Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally; and for her body of work for the stage, she has garnered the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, and the Horton Foote Award, among others. She lives in Harlem, New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Kia Corthron<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lurie-Daniel-Favors.jpg\" alt=\"Lurie-Daniel-Favors\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Luri Daniel-Favors<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Lurie Daniel Favors<\/b>, Esq., is the executive director at the Center for Law and Social Justice. She is an activist and attorney with a long-standing commitment to racial and social justice. Ms. Daniel Favors hosts the <i>Lurie Daniel Favors Show<\/i> on Sirius XM Urban View and co-hosts the <i>Sunday Civics Show<\/i>. Ms. Daniel Favors authored <i>Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl<\/i> and is a contributing author to <i>The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Lurie Daniel Favors<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EdwidgeDanticat.jpg\" alt=\"EdwidgeDanticat\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Edwidge Danticat<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Edwidge Danticat<\/b> is the author of several books including <i>Breath, Eyes, Memory<\/i>, <i>The Farming of Bones<\/i>, and the novels-in-stories, <i>The Dew Breaker<\/i>, <i>Claire of the Sea Light<\/i>, as well as <i>The Art of Death<\/i>, a National Books Critics Circle finalist. She is also the editor of <i>The Butterfly&#8217;s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States<\/i>, <i>The Beacon Best of 2000<\/i>, and <i>Haiti Noir<\/i>, <i>Haiti Noir 2<\/i>. She has written seven books for young adults and children, as well as a travel narrative, <i>After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti<\/i>, and a collection of essays, <i>Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work<\/i>. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow,\u00a0and a 2020 winner of the Vilcek Prize. Her most recent book, <i>Everything Inside: Stories<\/i>,\u00a0is a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction Prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Edwidge Danticat<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nicole-Dennis-Benn.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole-Dennis-Benn\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Nicole Dennis-Benn<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Nicole Dennis-Benn<\/b> is the author of <i>Here Comes the Sun<\/i>, a <i>New York Times <\/i>Notable Book of the Year and a 2017 Lambda Literary Award winner. Her best-selling sophomore novel,<i> Patsy<\/i>, is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner, a <i>New York Times<\/i> Editors&#8217; Choice, a <i>Financial Times <\/i>Critics Choice, a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book, and a &#8220;Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club&#8221; selection. <i>Patsy <\/i>has been named one of the Best Books of the Year by <i>Kirkus Reviews<\/i><i>, <\/i><i>Time<\/i>, NPR, <i>People<\/i> magazine, <i>Washington Post<\/i>, Apple Books, <i>O, the<\/i> <i>Oprah Magazine, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, <\/i>and<i> BuzzFeed, Elle<\/i><i>,<\/i> among others. &#8220;<i>Patsy<\/i> fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness,&#8221; raves <i>Time <\/i>magazine; and NPR names Dennis-Benn &#8220;an indispensable novelist.&#8221;<\/p>\n\t<p>Nicole Dennis-Benn<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Natashia-Deon-Photo-by-Brienne-Michelle-3.jpg\" alt=\"Natashia-Deon-Photo-by-Brienne-Michelle-(3)\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Natasia Deon<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Natashia De\u00f3n<\/b>\u00a0is an NAACP Image Award nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor. A Pamela Krasney Moral Courage Fellow, De\u00f3n is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel,\u00a0<i>Grace<\/i>, which was named a Best Book by\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>. De\u00f3n has been awarded fellowships by PEN America, Prague Summer Program for Writers, Dickinson House in Belgium, the Bread Loaf Writers&#8217; Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.<\/p>\n\t<p>Natashia Deon<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tananarive-Due.jpg\" alt=\"Tananarive-Due\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Tananarive Due<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Tananarive Due<\/b> (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder&#8217;s groundbreaking documentary\u00a0<i>Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror<\/i>. She and her husband\/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote &#8220;A Small Town&#8221; for Season 2 of Jordan Peele&#8217;s <i>The Twilight Zone<\/i> on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder&#8217;s anthology film\u00a0<i>Horror Noire<\/i>. A\u00a0leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing\u00a0has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include\u00a0<i>Ghost Summer: Stories<\/i>,\u00a0<i>My Soul to Keep<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>The Good House<\/i>. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored <i>Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights<\/i>. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Tananarive Due<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LouisEdwards.jpg\" alt=\"LouisEdwards\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Louis Edwards<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Louis Edwards<\/b> is the author of four novels including his latest, <i>Ramadan Ramsey<\/i>, which was selected as one of the Best Books of 2021 by NPR and <i>Publishers Weekly<\/i>. He has won both the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Whiting Writers Award. Born and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Edwards attended Hunter College and LSU (BA in journalism). He has had a decades-long career as a producer of many special events, most notably the New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival. He is the chief creative officer and chief marketing officer of Festival Productions Inc.-New Orleans. His earlier titles include <i>Ten Seconds<\/i>, <i>N:A Romantic Mystery<\/i>, and <i>Oscar Wilde Discovers America<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Louis Edwards<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MaritaGolden.jpg\" alt=\"MaritaGolden\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Marita Golden<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Co-founder and president emerita of the Zora Neale Hurston\/Richard Wright Foundation,<b> Marita Golden<\/b> is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author 17 works of fiction and nonfiction. As a teacher of writing, she has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA Creative Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, and as writer-in-residence at the University of the District of Columbia. She has taught writing workshops nationally and internationally to a variety of constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>Her new novel is <i>The Wide Circumference of Love<\/i>, nominated for an NAACP Image Award and has been optioned for production as a television or streaming limited series. Her other books include the novels <i>After<\/i> and <i>The Edge of Heaven<\/i>; and the memoirs <i>Migrations of the Heart<\/i>, <i>Saving Our Sons<\/i>, and <i>Don&#8217;t Play in the Sun: One Woman&#8217;s Journey Through the Color Complex<\/i>. She is the recipient of many awards including the Writers for Writers Award presented by Barnes &amp; Noble and Poets &amp; Writers and the Fiction Award for her novel <i>After<\/i>, awarded by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.<\/p>\n\t<p>Marita Golden<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nikky-Finney.jpg\" alt=\"Nikky-Finney\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Nikky Finney<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;So-you can write pretty,&#8221; Toni Cade Bambara tells the 21-year-old <b>Nikky Finney<\/b> during a monthly writing circle that Bambara held in her Atlanta home during the 1980s. &#8220;But what else can your words do besides adorn?&#8221; This flat-footed question, put to the young poet by the great short story writer, at the beginning of her career, sets her sailing toward a life of aiming her words to do more than pearl and decorate the page. She follows the path, beyond adornment, that Bambara lived and taught-a writing life rooted in empathetic engagement and human reciprocity. Nikky Finney has been a faculty member at Cave Canem summer workshop for African American poets; a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, a particular place for poets of color in Appalachia; poet and professor for 23 years at the University of Kentucky; and visiting professor at Berea and Smith Colleges. She won the PEN American Open Book Award in 1996 and the Elizabeth O&#8217;Neill Verner Award for the Arts in South Carolina in 2016. She edited\u00a0<i>Black Poets Lean South<\/i>, a Cave Canem anthology, authored\u00a0<i>On Wings Made of Gauze<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Rice<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Heartwood<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The World Is Round<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Head Off &amp; Split<\/i>, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry. Her acceptance speech has become a thing of legend, described by the 2011 NBA host John Lithgow, as &#8220;The best acceptance speech ever-for anything.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her home state of South Carolina, she involves herself in the day-to-day battles for truth and justice while also guiding both undergraduates and MFA students at the University of South Carolina where she is the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, with appointments in both the Department of English Language and Literature and the African American Studies Program, which she proudly notes is 46 years strong. Nikky Finney&#8217;s work, in book form and video, including her now legendary acceptance speech, is on display in the inaugural exhibition of the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C. You will find her in the poet&#8217;s corner, directly across from Chuck Berry&#8217;s 1973 candy apple red Cadillac Eldorado. Finney&#8217;s work includes the arenas of Black girl genius unrecognized, Black history misplaced and forgotten, and the stories of women who prefer to jump instead of ride the traditional tracks of polite and acceptable society. In her full body of poetry and storytelling, she explores the whispers and shouts of sexuality, the invisibility of poverty in a world continually smitten by the rich and the powerful, the graciousness of Black family perseverance, the truth of history, the grace and necessity of memory, as well as the titanic loss of habitat for all things precious and wild.<\/p>\n<p>The new decade is here and so is Finney&#8217;s new book.\u00a0<i>Love Child&#8217;s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry<\/i>\u00a0is her first poetry collection since winning the National Book Award in 2011. In addition to the poems, there are hotbeds, a horticulture term introducing her readers to her journals, the place where most of her poems have always found their calcium and strong knees. There are also artifacts, images, and photographs that assist the words in composing how the poet&#8217;s poet-life came to be. Over the last 30 years, each and every Nikky Finney book has always been wonderfully different but this long-awaited new minglement of word and image crafts a new kind of American poesy.<\/p>\n\t<p>Nikky Finney<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Novella-Ford.jpg\" alt=\"Novella-Ford\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Novella Ford<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Novella Ford<\/b> is the associate director of Public Programs and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of The New York Public Library.\u00a0 In her role, she has launched the annual Schomburg Center Literary Festival and has organized hundreds of public programs at the intersection of scholarship and popular culture. She connects diverse audiences to the archives and engages history through exhibitions, dialogue, performance, literature, and visual arts. Most recently, she was the guest editor of Pen + Brush Gallery&#8217;s literary magazine, <i>In Print <\/i>No. 5. Novella currently serves on the board of Cave Canem Foundation, a home for the many voices of Black poetry. She is a graduate of Howard University and NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.<\/p>\n\t<p>Novella Ford<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DrJoanneGabbin.jpg\" alt=\"DrJoanneGabbin\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Joanne V. Gabbin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Joanne V. Gabbin<\/b> is the executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and professor of English at James Madison University. She is author of <i>Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition<\/i> and a children&#8217;s book, <i>I Bet She Called Me Sugar Plum<\/i>. She is also the editor of <i>The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry<\/i>; <i>Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present<\/i>; <i>Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy<\/i>; <i>Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers<\/i>; and <i>Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry<\/i>, with co-editor Lauren K. Alleyne. A dedicated teacher and scholar, Gabbin has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and leadership. Among them are the College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award; the SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award; the Provost Award for Excellence; the JMU Distinguished Faculty Award; and induction in the International Literary Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\t<p>Joanne V. Gabbin<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KeithGilyard.jpg\" alt=\"KeithGilyard\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Keith Gilyard<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Born and raised in New York City,\u00a0<strong>Keith Gilyard<\/strong>\u00a0began publishing his work in the early 1970s when he was participating in writing workshops at the Langston Hughes Library &amp; Cultural Center in Queens. Gilyard is the author or editor of 25 books including\u00a0<em>True to the Language Game: African American Discourses,\u00a0Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2011) and\u00a0<em>John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism<\/em>\u00a0(University of Georgia Press, 2010). He is a two-time recipient of an American Book Award and served on the faculties of Medgar Evers College, CUNY (where he helped to launch the National Black Writers Conference), and Syracuse University. He is currently the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State.<\/p>\n\t<p>Keith Gilyard<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/eddieglaude.jpg\" alt=\"eddieglaude\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Eddie S. Glaude Jr.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Eddie S. Glaude Jr.<\/b> is an intellectual who speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience. His most well-known books <i>Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul<\/i> and <i>In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America<\/i> take a wide look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face.\u00a0 He is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his writings, the country&#8217;s complexities, vulnerabilities, and the opportunities for hope come into full view. Hope that is, in one of his favorite quotes from W.E.B Du Bois, &#8220;Not hopeless, but a bit unhopeful.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies, a program he first became involved with shaping as a doctoral candidate in Religion at Princeton. He is the former president of the American Academy of Religion. His books on religion and philosophy include <i>An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion<\/i>, <i>African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction<\/i>, and <i>Exodus! Religion, Race and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America<\/i>, which was awarded the Modern Language Association&#8217;s William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize. Glaude is also the author of two edited volumes, and many influential articles about religion for academic journals. He has also written for the likes of <i>The New York Times<\/i> and<i> Time Magazine<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Known to be a convener of conversations and debates, Glaude takes care to engage fellow citizens of all ages and backgrounds-from young activists to fellow academics, journalists and commentators, and followers on Twitter in dialogue about the direction of the nation. Glaude&#8217;s most recent book, <i>Begin Again: James Baldwin&#8217;s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own<\/i> was released June 2020. Of Baldwin, Glaude writes: &#8220;Baldwin&#8217;s writing does not bear witness to the glory of America. It reveals the country&#8217;s sins, and the illusion of innocence that blinds us to the reality of others. Baldwin&#8217;s vision requires a confrontation with our history (with slavery, Jim Crow segregation, with whiteness) to overcome its hold on us. Not to posit the greatness of America, but to establish the ground upon which to imagine the country anew.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some like to describe Glaude as the quintessential Morehouse man, having left his home in Moss Point, Mississippi at age 16 to begin studies at the HBCU. He holds a master&#8217;s degree in African American Studies from Temple University and a PhD in religion from Princeton University. He began his teaching career at Bowdoin College. In 2011, he delivered Harvard&#8217;s W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Colgate University, delivering commencement remarks titled &#8220;Turning Our Backs&#8221; that was recognized by <i>The New York Times<\/i> as one of the best commencement speeches of the year.\u00a0 He is a columnist for <i>Time Magazine<\/i> and a MSNBC contributor on programs like <i>Morning Joe<\/i> and <i>Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace<\/i>. He also regularly appears on <i>Meet the Press<\/i> on Sundays.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<strong>EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR.<br \/>\n<\/strong>(NBWC2022 Honoree)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/JewelleGomez.jpg\" alt=\"JewelleGomez\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Jewelle Gomez<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Jewelle Gomez<\/b> (Cabo Verdean\/Wampanoag\/Ioway) is a novelist, essayist, poet, and playwright. Her eight books include three volumes of poetry as well as the first Black lesbian vampire novel, <i>The Gilda Stories<\/i>. The novel has been in print for more than 30 years and was recently optioned by Cheryl Dunye (<i>Watermelon Woman<\/i>, <i>Lovecraft Country<\/i>) for a TV mini-series. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including <i>Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany<\/i>; <i>Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler<\/i>; and <i>Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora<\/i>. Her plays about James Baldwin and Alberta Hunter were produced in San Francisco and in New York City. Her new play, <i>Unpacking in Ptown<\/i>, will premier in fall of 2022. Her new collection of poetry, <i>Still Water<\/i>, will be published in June of 2022. She is a 2021 winner of the Legacy Award from The Horror Writers Association. Follow Gomez on Instagram\/Twitter: @VampyreVamp<\/p>\n\t<p>Jewelle Gomez<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Farah-Jasmine-Griffin.jpg\" alt=\"Farah-Jasmine-Griffin\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Farah Jasmine Griffin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Farah Jasmine Griffin<\/b>\u00a0is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University and was the inaugural chair of its African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (2019-2021). Griffin&#8217;s recently published book is <i>Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literatu<\/i>re. Her major fields of interest are American and African American literature, music, and history. She has published widely on issues of race and gender, feminism and cultural politics. Her activism has centered on issues of education, poverty, and gender equity especially as they impact women and children.\u00a0She currently sits on the board of The Brotherhood\/Sister Sol, an organization that provides comprehensive, holistic, and long-term support services to youth in Central Harlem.<\/p>\n\t<p>Farah Jasmine Griffin<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Obery-Hendricks.jpg\" alt=\"Obery-Hendricks\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Obery M. Hendricks Jr.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A lifelong social activist, <b>Obery M. Hendricks Jr.<\/b> is a noted commentator on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. Cornel West calls him &#8220;One of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.&#8221; His most recent book, <i>Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith<\/i>, is hailed as &#8220;brilliant&#8221; (Eddie S. Glaude Jr.).<\/p>\n<p>A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Hendricks&#8217;s appearances include CNN, CBS, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, BBC, NHK Japan Television, and the Bloomberg Network. He has provided running event commentary for National Public Radio, MSNBC, and the Al Jazeera and Aspire international television networks. Hendricks has been a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, for whom he delivered the closing benediction at the 2008 Democratic Convention. He has been a distinguished senior fellow at The Democracy Collaborative in Washington, D.C.; an affiliated scholar at the Center for American Progress; a senior fellow at The Opportunity Agenda; and is a member of the board of directors of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Christian Socialism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hendricks&#8217;s bestselling book <i>The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus&#8217; Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted<\/i> was the featured subject of the 90-minute C-SPAN special hosted by the Center for American Progress, &#8220;Class, Politics and Christianity.&#8221; A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary as well as a former visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary, Hendricks is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the Departments of Religion and African American and African Diasporic Studies; a senior lecturer at Yale Divinity School; and emeritus professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n\t<p>Obery M. Hendricks Jr.<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Marc-Lamont-Hill.jpg\" alt=\"Marc-Lamont-Hill\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Marc Lamont Hill<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Dr. Marc Lamont Hill<\/b> is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is currently the host of <i>BET News<\/i> and <i>the Coffee &amp; Books<\/i> podcast. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College.<\/p>\n<p>Since his days as a youth in Philadelphia, Dr. Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He has worked on campaigns to end the death penalty, abolish prisons, and release numerous political prisoners. Dr. Hill has also worked in solidarity with human rights movements around the world. He is the founder and director of The People&#8217;s Education Center in Philadelphia, as well as the owner of\u00a0Uncle Bobbie&#8217;s Coffee &amp; Books.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ebony<\/i> magazine has named him one of America&#8217;s 100 Most Influential Black Leaders. Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of six books: the award-winning\u00a0<i>Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity<\/i>;\u00a0<i>The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America<\/i>;\u00a0<i>Nobody: Casualties of America&#8217;s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond<\/i>;\u00a0<i>Gentrifier<\/i>;<i>\u00a0We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility<\/i>; and\u00a0<i>Except For Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics<\/i>. He has also published two edited books:\u00a0<i>Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility<\/i> and\u00a0<i>Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education<\/i>. Dr. Hill holds a PhD (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research agenda focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education in the United States and the Middle East.<\/p>\n\t<p>Marc Lamont Hill<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LadeeHubbard_PhotoBy_ZackSmith.jpg\" alt=\"LadeeHubbard_PhotoBy_ZackSmith\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Ladee Hubbard<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Ladee Hubbard<\/b> is the author of the short story collection\u00a0<i>The Last Suspicious Holdout<\/i> as well as the novels\u00a0<i>The Rib King <\/i>and\u00a0<i>The Talented Ribkins<\/i>,<i>\u00a0<\/i>which received<i>\u00a0<\/i>the 2018 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications including\u00a0<i>Oxford American Virginia Quarterly Review<\/i>,<i> Callaloo<\/i>,<i> Guernica<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>The Times Literary Supplement<\/i>. She is a recipient of fellowships from The American Academy in Berlin, the Radcliffe Institute, MacDowell, and Hedgebrook, among other organizations. She lives in New Orleans.<\/p>\n\t<p>Ladee Hubbard<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/KarenHunter.jpg\" alt=\"KarenHunter\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Karen Hunter<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Karen Hunter<\/b> is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, professor, publisher and &#8220;change agent,&#8221; according to <i>Essence <\/i>magazine, which named her one of the &#8220;Woke100&#8221; of 2018. She was also selected to the 2020 <i>Ebony<\/i> magazine&#8217;s Power 100 List. As a writer, Karen has co-authored eight New York Times bestsellers. As CEO of Karen Hunter Publishing, an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster, she published more than 35 books, including No. 1 NYT bestseller <i>True You <\/i>by pop icon Janet Jackson, as well as bestsellers with Kris Jenner and E. Lynn Harris. Karen has been named one of the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America by industry bible <i>Talkers Magazine <\/i>every year since 2015. A New Jersey native, a Drew University graduate, Karen has been a full-time professor and Distinguished Lecturer in the Film &amp; Media Department at Hunter College in New York City since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In 2020, during the pandemic, Karen launched Knarrative, which is home to the largest Africana Studies classroom in the world.<\/p>\n\t<p>Karen Hunter<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MarlonJames.jpg\" alt=\"MarlonJames\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Marlon James<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Marlon James<\/b> was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of a <i>Brief History of Seven Killings,<\/i> <i>The Book of Night Women<\/i>, and <i>Jim Crow&#8217;s Devil<\/i>. His most recent novel, <i>Moon Witch<\/i>, <i>Spider King<\/i>, the second novel in James&#8217;s <i>Dark Star<\/i> trilogy of African fantasy, was published in February 2022. He is the recipient of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, The American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Marlon James<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MorganJerkins.jpg\" alt=\"MorganJerkins\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Morgan Jerkins<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Morgan Jerkins<\/b> is the\u00a0<i>New York Times\u00a0<\/i>best-selling author of\u00a0<i>This Will Be My Undoing<\/i>,<i> Wandering in Strange Lands<\/i>,\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Caul Baby<\/i>. A former senior editor at ESPN&#8217;s <i>The Undefeated<\/i> and <i>ZORA Magazine<\/i>, Jerkins has taught at Columbia University, Pacific University, Bennington College, and she served as the Guest Picador Professor at Leipzig University in Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Morgan Jerkins<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ELLE-JOHNSON1.jpg\" alt=\"ELLE-JOHNSON1\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Elle Johnson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Elle Johnson<\/b> is a TV writer and author. Her debut memoir, <i>The Officer&#8217;s Daughter<\/i>, is the story of a family, a terrible tragedy, and the power-and ultimately the freedom-of forgiveness. The <i>New York Times<\/i> called it an &#8220;immensely moving book.&#8221; The memoir received starred reviews from both <i>Publishers Weekly<\/i> and <i>Kirkus Reviews<\/i>. Her TV credits include cop shows such as <i>Law &amp; Order<\/i>, <i>CSI: Miami<\/i>, and the Amazon original series <i>Bosch<\/i>, based on the Michael Connelly detective novels. She has also written for a number of character-driven series, such as Lifetime&#8217;s critically acclaimed civil rights drama <i>Any Day Now<\/i>, CBS&#8217;s <i>Ghost Whisperer<\/i>, and Freeform&#8217;s groundbreaking series <i>The Fosters<\/i>. In 2020, Elle won an NAACP Image Award as co-showrunner and executive producer on Netflix&#8217;s limited series <i>Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker<\/i>, starring Octavia Spencer, who was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in the lead role.<\/p>\n\t<p>Elle Johnson<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PenielEJoseph.jpg\" alt=\"PenielEJoseph\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Peniel E. Joseph<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Peniel E. Joseph<\/b> is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values; founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy; associate dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of numerous books including <i>The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr<\/i>., which was named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Time<\/i> magazine; <i>Financial Times<\/i>; <i>Guardian<\/i>; Times Literary Supplement; <i>New York Times<\/i> Editors&#8217; Pick; and finalist for the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. His newest book, <i>The Third Reconstruction: Reimagining Racial Justice in the 21st Century<\/i>, will be published by Basic Books on September 2022.<\/p>\n\t<p>Peniel E. Joseph<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KendiXIbram_PhotoBy_StephenVoss.jpg\" alt=\"KendiXIbram_PhotoBy_StephenVoss\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Ibram X. Kendi<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Ibram X. Kendi<\/b> is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author of many books including <i>Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/i>, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; and five No.1 <i>New York Times<\/i> best sellers: <i>How to Be an Antiracist<\/i>; <i>Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You<\/i>, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; <i>Antiracist Baby<\/i>, illustrated by\u00a0Ashley Lukashevsky; and <i>Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019<\/i>, co-edited with Keisha N. Blain. He also authored <i>Goodnight Racism<\/i>, illustrated by Cbabi Bayoc. In 2020, <i>Time<\/i> magazine named Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.<\/p>\n\t<p>Ibram X. Kendi<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Moikgantsi-Kgama.jpg\" alt=\"Moikgantsi-Kgama\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Moikgantsi Kgama<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Bio coming soon.<\/p>\n\t<p>Moikgantsi Kgama<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Kiese-Laymon.jpg\" alt=\"Kiese-Laymon\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Kiese Laymon<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Kiese Laymon<\/b> is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the genre-bending novel <i>Long Division<\/i> and the essay collection <i>How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America<\/i>. Laymon&#8217;s best-selling memoir\u00a0<i>Heavy: An American\u00a0Memoir<\/i> won the\u00a02019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose,\u00a0the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>.\u00a0The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard.\u00a0Laymon is at work on several new projects, including the long poem &#8220;Good God,&#8221; the horror comedy\u00a0<i>And So On<\/i>, the children&#8217;s book <i>City Summer, Country Summer<\/i> and the film <i>Heavy: An American <\/i>Memoir. He is the founder of The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative, a program aimed at getting Mississippi kids and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, revising, and sharing.<\/p>\n\t<p>Kiese Laymon<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ThabitiLewis_PhotoBy_WSUVancouverMrktgAndComm2022.jpg\" alt=\"ThabitiLewis_PhotoBy_WSUVancouverMrktgAndComm2022\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Thabiti Lewis<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Thabiti Lewis<\/b> is professor of English at Washington State University in Vancouver and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. His areas of focus are mid-20th century African American literature and multicultural literature. The Black Arts Movement is of particular interest to him as he is the co-director and co-producer of the 2019 documentary film <i>Bam! Chicago&#8217;s Black Arts Movement<\/i> and is completing an edited reader about Chicago and Black arts. He is the author of <i>Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara&#8217;s Practices of Liberation<\/i> and editor of <i>Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara<\/i>. His interests extend to sports and popular culture and those interests are reflected in the book <i>Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Thabiti Lewis<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DrHakiRMadhubuti_PhotoBy_RaynardGraves.jpg\" alt=\"DrHakiRMadhubuti_PhotoBy_RaynardGraves\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Haki R. Madhubuti<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti<\/b> is an award-winning poet, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, an essayist, educator, and founder and publisher (emeritus) of Third World Press and Third World Press Foundation. He is the author\/editor of more than 36 books of poetry and nonfiction including <i>Don&#8217;t Cry, Scream<\/i>, <i>Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet&#8217;s Handbook<\/i>; <i>YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet&#8217;s Life<\/i>; <i>Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1967-2009<\/i>; <i>Honoring Genius, Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice<\/i>; and the best-selling <i>Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?<\/i> A long-time community activist and institution builder, Madhubuti is a co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education and its three schools in Chicago. He retired in 2011 after a 42-year distinguished teaching career that included Cornell University, Howard University, and Chicago State University, where he was appointed its first University Distinguished Professor and was the founding director of its MFA Program in Creative Writing, and DePaul University, where he served as the last Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor. Madhubuti&#8217;s most recent books are <i>Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century America<\/i>; co-editor of <i>Not Our President: New Directions from the Pushed Out, the Others, and the Clear Majority in Trump&#8217;s Stolen America<\/i>; and <i>Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Haki R. Madhubuti<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bernice-L.-McFadden2.jpg\" alt=\"Bernice-L.-McFadden2\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Bernice L. McFadden<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Bernice L. McFadden<\/b>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<i>The Book of Harlan<\/i>, winner of the 2017 American Book Award and the 2017 NAACP Image Award for\u00a0Outstanding Literary Work. This in addition to eight other\u00a0critically acclaimed novels including\u00a0<i>Sugar<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Loving Donovan<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Gathering of Waters<\/i>\u00a0(a\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0Editors&#8217; Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012),\u00a0<i>Glorious<\/i>, which was featured in\u00a0<i>O, The Oprah Magazine<\/i>\u00a0and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award.\u00a0She is a four-time Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the Black Caucus of American Library Association (BCALA). <i>Praise Song for the Butterflies<\/i>\u00a0is her latest novel.<\/p>\n\t<p>Bernice L. McFadden<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Victor-McGlothin-Headshot1.jpg\" alt=\"Victor-McGlothin---Headshot1\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Victor McGlothin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Victor McGlothin<\/b>, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, left a vice president position with a local bank to pursue his dream of becoming a national best-selling author. In the past 20 years, McGlothin has penned a monument of best-selling fiction and self-help book projects. A former contributor to <i>D Magazine<\/i>, McGlothin has used his creative gift to offer a welcomed multicultural perspective to readership across the racial spectrum. While experiencing successes as a novelist, Victor has also completed three film projects.\u00a0He is currently the director of Integrated Marketing and Communications at UNT Dallas College of Law.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Victor McGlothin<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tony-Medina-photo-by-Marcia-Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"Tony-Medina-photo-by-Marcia-Wilson\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Tony Medina<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Tony Medina<\/b> is the author\/editor of 23 award-winning books for adults and young people, the most recent of which are <i>Che Che Col\u00e9<\/i>;<i> Death, with Occasional Smiling<\/i>;<i> Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy<\/i>;<i> I Am Alfonso Jones<\/i>; and <i>Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky. <\/i>Medina&#8217;s poetry, fiction, and essays appear in more than 100 anthologies and literary journals, including <i>Revising the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, Show Us Your Papers, Carving Our Rights, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle &amp; Song,<\/i> <i>The Future of Black, Where We Stand<\/i> and <i>Obsidian&#8217;s <\/i>&#8220;Heirloom: Preserving HBCU Futures&#8221; (issue 47.2). Medina&#8217;s <i>I and I, Bob Marley<\/i> audiobook, narrated by actor Jaime Lincoln Smith and produced by Live Oak Media, is a recent finalist for a 2022 Audie Award. The first professor of creative writing at Howard University, Medina holds a master&#8217;s and PhD from Binghamton University, SUNY. <\/p>\n\t<p>Tony Medina<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MaazaMengiste.jpg\" alt=\"MaazaMengiste\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Maaza Mengiste<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Maaza Mengiste<\/b> is the author of <i>The Shadow King<\/i>, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts &amp; Letters Award in Literature, as well as a <i>LA Times <\/i>Books Prize finalist. It was named a Best Book of 2019 by <i>New York Times<\/i>, NPR, <i>Time<\/i>, <i>Elle<\/i>, and other publications. <i>Beneath the Lion&#8217;s Gaze<\/i>, her debut, was selected by the <i>Guardian<\/i> as one of the 10 Best Contemporary African Books.<\/p>\n\t<p>Maaza Mengiste<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Khalil-Muhammad.jpg\" alt=\"Khalil-Muhammad\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Khalil Gibran Muhammad<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Khalil Gibran Muhammad<\/b> is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. He is the former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world&#8217;s leading library and archive of global Black history. He is the award-winning author of <i>The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America<\/i> and a contributor to a 2014 National Research Council study &#8220;The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences.&#8221; He is currently co-chairing a National Academies of Sciences report on &#8220;Reducing Racial Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System.&#8221; Khalil co-hosts the Pushkin podcast <i>Some of My Best Friends Are<\/i> and is a frequent reviewer and commentator in national print and broadcast media outlets, such as the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, <i>The Nation<\/i>, National Public Radio, <i>PBS Newshour<\/i>, MSNBC, and the <i>New York Times<\/i>, which includes his sugar essay for <i>The 1619 Project<\/i>. He has appeared in a number of feature-length documentaries, including the recently released <i>Amend: The Fight for America<\/i> (2021), the Oscar-nominated <i>13th<\/i> (2016) and <i>Slavery by Another Name<\/i> (2012). Khalil is an award-winning teacher at Harvard and has received numerous honors for his commitment to public engagement, such as Ebony Power 100 and the Distinguished Service Medal from Columbia University&#8217;s Teachers College. He serves on several boards, including the Vera Institute of Justice, Cure Violence Global, and The Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n\t<p>Khalil Gibran Muhammad<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mark-Anthony-Neal.jpg\" alt=\"Mark-Anthony-Neal\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Mark Anthony Neal<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Mark Anthony Neal<\/b>\u00a0is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African &amp; African-American Studies and professor of English at Duke University. Neal is the author of six books including\u00a0<i>What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Public Culture<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture, the Post-Soul Aesthetic<\/i>\u00a0and<i>\u00a0Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive. <\/i>He is co-editor, with Murray Forman, of\u00a0<i>That&#8217;s The Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader\u00a0<\/i>(now in its 2nd edition)<i>.<\/i>\u00a0Neal directs the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE), which produces original digital content, including the weekly video podcast\u00a0<i>Left of Black<\/i> (now in its 12th season), produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke.<\/p>\n\t<p>Mark Anthony Neal<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Courttia-Newland-2019-by-Sharron-Wallace.jpg\" alt=\"Courttia-Newland-2019-by-Sharron-Wallace\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Courttia Newland<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Courttia Newland<\/b> has published nine works of fiction, including his debut, <i>The Scholar<\/i>. His latest collection of speculative fiction stories, <i>Cosmogramma<\/i>, was published in 2021 by Canongate (UK) and Akashic Books (US). Newland&#8217;s short stories have appeared in many anthologies, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and included in <i>Best of British Short Stories 2017<\/i>. He has been awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. He holds a PhD in creative writing and was previously associate lecturer at the University of Westminster. As a screenwriter, he has co-written two feature-length films for the Steve McQueen BBC series <i>Small Axe<\/i>, of which <i>Lovers Rock<\/i> was jury selected for Cannes, and opened New York Film Fest 2020. <i>Small Axe <\/i>won the LA Critics Circle Award 2020 for Best Picture. <i>Impact<\/i>, an original feature, is currently in development with Film Four and<i> The Future Isn&#8217;t What It Used to Be<\/i>, a science fiction short, is part of their science fiction strand, <i>4sight<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Courttia Newland<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nana-Nkweti.jpg\" alt=\"Nana-Nkweti\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Nana Nkweti<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Nana Nkweti<\/b> is a Cameroonian-American writer and AKO Caine Prize finalist whose work has garnered fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, Ucross, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and several others. Her first book, <i>Walking on Cowrie Shells<\/i>, is a <i>New York Times <\/i>Editor&#8217;s Choice, Indie Next pick, recipient of starred reviews from <i>Kirkus, Publishers Weekly<\/i>, and<i> BookPage; <\/i>and has been featured in <i>The New Yorker, Harper&#8217;s Bazaar, Oprah Daily, The Root, <\/i>NPR, <i>Buzzfeed, <\/i>and<i> Thrillist<\/i>, among others. Nkweti is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n\t<p>Nana Nkweti<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Patrick-Oliver-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick-Oliver-2022\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Patrick Oliver<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Patrick M. Oliver<\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0literary and education consultant, author,\u00a0youth advocate,\u00a0and founder\u00a0<i>Say It Loud!<\/i>\u00a0Readers and Writers.\u00a0Oliver&#8217;s\u00a0professional experience includes serving as director of sales and marketing\u00a0at Third World Press and program director Open Book Program, both in Chicago, and\u00a0senior subcontract administrator and system analyst in the defense industry in Los\u00a0Angeles.\u00a0He is\u00a0the\u00a0creator and publisher of the\u00a0<i>Ananse Journal\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>On My Own: Vision Board Guidebook for Young People, 5th Anniversary Edition.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n\t<p>Patrick Oliver<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Monique-Patterson.jpg\" alt=\"Monique-Patterson\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Monique Patterson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Monique Patterson <\/b>is vice president and editorial director Acquisitions Outreach at the St. Martin&#8217;s Publishing Group. The quote &#8220;All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town,&#8221; by Leo Tolstoy is one of her favorites, because it immediately sets to mind all the possibilities of a fantastic story. Finding books and authors that reach across the breadth of our experiences as humans is important to her. Publishing commercial fiction, nonfiction, and a select amount of young adult allows Monique to explore all of those experiences. Among titles Patterson has published include\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i> bestseller <i>Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty<\/i>\u00a0by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt;\u00a0the young adult edition of <i>Can&#8217;t Stop, Won&#8217;t Stop: A Hip-Hop History<\/i> by Jeff Chang and Dave &#8220;Davey D&#8221; Cook; <i>Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar<\/i> by Miles Marshall Lewis; and <i>The Abolitionist&#8217;s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World<\/i> by Patrisse Cullors.<\/p>\n\t<p>Monique Patterson<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Dolen-Perkins-Valdez.Photo-by-Elena-M.jpg\" alt=\"Dolen-Perkins-Valdez.Photo-by-Elena-M\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Dolen Perkins-Valdez<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Dolen Perkins-Valdez<\/b> is the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0best-selling author of\u00a0<i>Wench<\/i>\u00a0(2010),\u00a0<i>Balm<\/i>\u00a0(2015), and\u00a0the forthcoming novel\u00a0<i>Take My Hand<\/i>\u00a0(2022).\u00a0<i>Wench<\/i>\u00a0was a finalist for two\u00a0NAACP\u00a0Image Awards and the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. In 2017, HarperCollins released it\u00a0as one of eight &#8220;Olive Titles,&#8221; limited edition modern classics\u00a0that included\u00a0books\u00a0by Edward P. Jones, Louise Erdrich, and Zora Neale Hurston.\u00a0Dolen received a D.C. Commission on the Arts Grant for her second novel\u00a0Balm\u00a0which was published by HarperCollins in 2015. In 2013, Dolen wrote the introduction to a special edition of Solomon Northup&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Twelve Years a Slave<\/i>, published by Simon &amp; Schuster, which became a\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0best seller.\u00a0\u00a0Dolen is the current chair of the board of the PEN\/Faulkner Foundation and is associate professor in the Literature Department at American University in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\t<p>Dolen Perkins-Valdez<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Kevin-Powell-in-Wales.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin-Powell-in-Wales\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Kevin Powell<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Bio coming soon.<\/p>\n\t<p>Kevin Powell<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Diane-Richards.jpg\" alt=\"Diane-Richards\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Diane Richards<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A multifaceted, dynamic talent, <b>Diane Richards<\/b>&#8216;s entertainment career began as an award-winning recording artist discovered by the legendary jazz producer John Hammond and signed to CBS Records where she recorded playwright\/actor Chazz Palminteri&#8217;s famous ballad &#8220;I Forgot About Love.&#8221;\u00a0 In the 1990s, Richards was senior vice president of Dick Scott Entertainment and Donnie Wahlberg&#8217;s Donnie D. Productions, managing the careers of platinum-selling artists NKOTB (New Kids on the Block), Big L, Mark Wahlberg, and Cool Change, the a cappella group that appears in Robert De Niro&#8217;s directorial debut <i>A Bronx Tale<\/i>. Richards was the associate producer on NKOBT&#8217;s <i>Face the Music <\/i>studio album released on Sony records in 1994. Diane&#8217;s first passion, dramatic writing, resurfaced and she was invited into The Harlem Writers Guild in 2000. In 2015, she was appointed Executive Director of The Harlem Writers Guild, the oldest, most prestigious African American Writers Guild in the world, who&#8217;s early and founding members include John Oliver Killens, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Rosa Guy, Maya Angelou, Grace Edwards, Terry McMillan, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Richards is committed to carrying on the literary legacy of the Guild. In 2012, Woodie King Jr. of the New Federal Theatre produced Diane&#8217;s play, <i>Sowa&#8217;s Red Gravy<\/i>, based on her self-published book, <i>Sowa&#8217;s Red Gravy Stories<\/i>, starring Tony Award-nominated Lonette McKee. Richards&#8217; writing earned rave reviews from the New York Times. In 2015, Richards co-produced Amiri Baraka&#8217;s last play before he died-<i>Most Dangerous Man in America <\/i>based on the life of the legendary civil rights activist, author, and American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois.<\/p>\n\t<p>Diane Richards<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MauriceCarlosRuffin_PhotoBy_VaughnDTaylor.jpg\" alt=\"MauriceCarlosRuffin_PhotoBy_VaughnDTaylor\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Maurice Carlos Ruffin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Maurice Carlos Ruffin<\/b> is the author of <i>The Ones Who Don&#8217;t Say They Love You: Stories<\/i>, a <i>New York Times<\/i> Editors&#8217; Choice. His first book, <i>We Cast a Shadow<\/i>, was a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes including the Iowa Review Award in fiction. A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of creative writing at Louisiana State University, and the 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n\t<p>Maurice Carlos Ruffin<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rosaz-Shariyf-Clarisse.jpg\" alt=\"Rosaz-Shariyf-Clarisse\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf<\/b> has served as PEN America&#8217;s senior director of literary programs since September 2015. She oversees curation, production, audience building, and strategy for a range of programs and initiatives honoring literary excellence, lifting writers whose voices need to be heard, and curating public programs featuring American and international authors and artists. Formerly, as the manager of public programs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, she oversaw audience development, public engagement strategies, and cultural community partnerships. She launched the Center&#8217;s innovative digital programming strategy with groundbreaking conversations on contemporary social justice issues with leading edge writers, artists, and scholars. She held prior appointments at Justice and Sustainability Associates, Washington, and Bates College, Maine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Brian-W.jpg\" alt=\"Brian-W\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Brian W. Smith<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Brian W. Smith<\/b> is the award-winning, best-selling author of 37 novels and screenplays, including <i>The Mardi Gras Murders: A Sleepy Carter Mystery<\/i>, <i>The Delusion of Inclusion<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>If These Trees Could Talk<\/i>. His novels have appeared on numerous best-sellers list: <i>Dallas Morning News<\/i>, Amazon, Target Retail Stores, and others. He has also ghost written 20 novel, memoirs, and nonfiction books for other authors. He has also been signed to Simon &amp; Schuster since 2011. Brian is the founder and president of The Script Repository, a company that specializes in adapting novels to screenplays. When Brian is not writing novels and screenplays for himself and others, he has served as an adjunct professor of creative writing and screenwriting at Collin College in Plano, Texas, since 2012. Brian is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and currently resides in McKinney, Texas.<\/p>\n\t<p>Brian W. Smith<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tracysmith.jpg\" alt=\"tracysmith\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Tracy K. Smith<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Tracy K. Smith<\/b> is professor of English and of African and African American Studies<br \/>Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator, and librettist. She served as the 22nd\u00a0Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, during which time she spearheaded\u00a0&#8220;American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities&#8221;\u00a0with the Library of Congress, launched the American Public Media podcast\u00a0<i>The Slowdown<\/i>, and edited the <i>anthology\u00a0American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0<i>Wade in the Water<\/i>, which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award;\u00a0Life on Mars, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize;\u00a0<i>Duende<\/i>, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and\u00a0<i>The Body&#8217;s Question<\/i>, which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir,\u00a0<i>Ordinary Light<\/i>, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of\u00a0<i>My Name Will Grow Wide like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei<\/i>, which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin International Poetry Prize.\u00a0<i>Such Color: New and Selected Poems<\/i>\u00a0was published in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Among her other honors are the Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Harvard Arts Medal, the Columbia Medal for Excellence, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an\u00a0Essence\u00a0Literary Award. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n\t<strong>TRACY K. SMITH<\/strong><br \/>\n(NBWC2022 Honoree)\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MarthaSouthgate_2018-1.jpg\" alt=\"MarthaSouthgate_2018\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Martha Southgate<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Martha Southgate<\/b> is the author of four novels: <i>The Taste of Salt<\/i>, <i>Third Girl from the Left,<\/i> <i>The Fall of Rome<\/i>, and <i>Another Way to Dance. <\/i>Her nonfiction writing has appeared in many publications including\u00a0<i>New York Times Magazine <\/i>as well as the Op-Ed page, <i>O, The Oprah Magazine<\/i>, <i>Washington Post,<\/i> and <i>Entertainment Weekly. <\/i>Among her more recent work is &#8220;Rise Up,&#8221; an essay in <i>The American Scholar<\/i> about the transformative effect of <i>Hamilton: An American Musical<\/i>, and reviews of both Ann Beattie and Ann Patchett&#8217;s latest novels for<i> The New York Times Book Review. <\/i>She earned an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College in May 2020.<\/p>\n\t<p>Martha Southgate<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ShereeReneeThomas.jpg\" alt=\"ShereeReneeThomas\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas<\/b>\u00a0is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science,\u00a0music, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. Her fiction collection\u00a0<i>Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future<\/i>\u00a0was a finalist for the 2021 Ignyte Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award. She is also the author of the multigenre\/hybrid collections\u00a0<i>Sleeping Under the Tree of Life\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>Shotgun Lullabies. <\/i>She is a contributor to Marvel&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, <\/i>edited by Jesse J. Holland, and to Janelle Mon\u00e1e&#8217;s short story collection,\u00a0<i>The Memory Librarian and Other Stories from Dirty Computer<\/i>. She is a co-editor of\u00a0<i>Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue\u00a0<\/i>with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins and of\u00a0<i>Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative <\/i>with Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, forthcoming fall 2022. She is the editor of\u00a0<i>The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction,\u00a0<\/i>founded in 1949, and is the<i>\u00a0<\/i>associate editor of <i>Obsidian<\/i>, founded in 1975. In 2000 and 2004, she edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning groundbreaking anthologies\u00a0<i>Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.<\/i> A former New Yorker, she lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid. Follow @blackpotmojo on Twitter @shereereneethomas on IG &amp; FB. Visit www.shereereneethomas.com<\/p>\n\t<p>Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ward.jpg\" alt=\"ward\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Dr. Jervette R. Ward<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Bio coming soon.<\/p>\n\t<p>Jervette R. Ward<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NBWC2022Honoree_JacquelineWoodsonn.jpg\" alt=\"NBWC2022Honoree_JacquelineWoodsonn\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Jacqueline Woodson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Jacqueline Woodson<\/b> is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children&#8217;s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People&#8217;s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0best-selling memoir,\u00a0<i>Brown Girl Dreaming<\/i>, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She also wrote the adult books <i>Red at the Bone<\/i>, a <i>New York Times <\/i>best seller, and <i>Another Brooklyn,<\/i> a 2016 National Book Award finalist. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner<i> Before the Ever After<\/i>, <i>New York Times <\/i>bestsellers<i> The Year We Learned to Fly<\/i>, <i>The Day You Begin<\/i>, and <i>Harbor Me<\/i>;\u00a0<i>The Other Side<\/i>;\u00a0<i>Each Kindness<\/i>; Caldecott Honor book\u00a0<i>Coming on Home Soon<\/i>; Newbery Honor winners\u00a0<i>Feathers<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Show Way<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>After Tupac and D Foster<\/i>; and\u00a0<i>Miracle&#8217;s Boys<\/i>, which received the\u00a0<i>LA Times<\/i>\u00a0Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children&#8217;s Book Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<strong>JACQUELINE WOODSON<\/strong><br \/>\n(NBWC2022 Honoree)\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CAMILLE.jpg\" alt=\"CAMILLE\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Nana Camille Yarbrough<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Nana Camille Yarbrough<\/strong> has been a legendary cultural force in African American life for more than seven decades. Revered as a former dancer with the Katherine Dunham Dance Company; a celebrated Broadway theater, film, and television actress; and an award-winning author, Ms. Yarbrough has devoted her life to celebrating African culture and its gifts to the world.<\/p>\n<p>In theater, Nana Camille co-starred in Lorraine Hansberry&#8217;s <em>To Be Young, Gifted, and Black<\/em>, among other historic productions. In film and television, she was in <em>Shaft<\/em> and had roles in soap operas and TV specials in the 70s. As a writer, her groundbreaking articles about Black culture have appeared in <em>The New York Times<\/em> and other distinguished publications. Her award-winning children&#8217;s books have delighted families for several generations. As a songwriter and spoken word artist, Nana Camille has had her songs covered by <strong>Nina Simone<\/strong> and has been called the &#8220;foremother of hip hop&#8221; by SPIN magazine. The reference points to the 1999 re-release of her debut album, <em>Iron Pot Cooker<\/em> (1975). <strong>Fatboy Slim<\/strong> covered her song &#8220;Take Yo Praise&#8221; and his version, &#8220;Praise You&#8221; became an international mega-hit.<\/p>\n<p>The driving force behind all Yarbrough&#8217;s performance and literary accomplishments is her pursuit of freedom and justice. She has long been a social justice artist who loved her people more than she loved the glitter and trappings of stardom. Nana Camille has always been at home on the front line protesting, marching, standing up to the police, and spending time in jail or in the classroom at City College of New York teaching students in the Africana Studies department. Be it with <strong>Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan<\/strong>, <strong>Rev. Al Sharpton<\/strong>, <strong>Ossie Davis<\/strong>, and <strong>Ruby D<\/strong>, or behind the scenes with youth and families, Nana Camille has a storied history of activism that has deeply grounded her artistry.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Chicago in 1934, Ms. Yarbrough has traveled the world always bound by a singular passion: <em>Tell the glorious stories of African people<\/em>. An African American griot at her core, Nana Camille Yarbrough reminds her community of the importance of honoring our legacies and loving each other. Her clarion call: <em><strong>Family Forever!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\t<strong>NANA CAMILLE YARBROUGH<\/strong><br \/>\nLifetime Achievement Award for the Literary and Performing Arts\n<h3>\n\t\t<strong>NBWC2022 Film Series Participants:<\/strong> <em>Love Supreme: A Celebration of Cinema, Literature, and Relationships<\/em>\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NasirKennethFerebee.jpg\" alt=\"NasirKennethFerebee\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Nasir Kenneth Ferebee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Nasir Kenneth Ferebee<\/strong> is an NAACP Image Award, GLAAD, and three-time Telly Award- winning producer, filmmaker, and writer. He earned a film degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., where he graduated <em>cum laude<\/em>. After graduation, Nasir launched his career in New York City and climbed the ranks from intern to producer at various media companies including VH1, The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), Bravo, MTV, Lifetime, and BET.<\/p>\n<p>Nasir has amassed dozens of film-producing credits, including <em>90 Days<\/em>, which won awards at the African Movie Academy Awards, Pan African Film Festival, and Diversity in Cannes Festival. He also produced the acclaimed film <em>All Boys Aren&#8217;t Blue<\/em>, which won the Audience Award at NewFest Film Festival along with the GLAAD Media Award for Special Recognition Project. Nasir recently won his first NAACP Image Award for Best Short Film for the Oscar-qualifying film <em>Black Boy Joy<\/em>, which is currently streaming on HBO Max. Currently, Nasir is in development on numerous projects including <em>Give the Drummer Some<\/em>. The film was also the winner of the Producers Guild of America Create fellowship and was featured in <em>Produced By Magazine<\/em>. His unscripted cooking show pilot titled <em>Mama&#8217;s Kitchen<\/em> with Seth Brundle and the scripted TV pilot <em>G&#8217;Uncles<\/em> are also in development.<\/p>\n\t<p>Nasir Kenneth Ferebee<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dr.jpg\" alt=\"Dr\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Dr. Artel Great<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Dr. Artel Great<\/b> is an American artist, Independent Spirit Award-nominated filmmaker, Black cinema scholar, and a leading authority on race and popular culture, bridging the gap at the intersections of cinema and social justice. His rigorous work as a public scholar and critically informed film director transcends boundaries and defies conventional categorization, approaching Black cinema and visual culture as a form of creative activism that addresses the myriad links between art and politics. He is also known for his supporting roles in the films <i>Save the Last Dance<\/i>, Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s <i>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/i>, and his award-winning performance in the cult classic <i>Dahmer<\/i>. Dr. Great is the first Black valedictorian at UCLA Film School, where he graduated summa cum laude, and later earned his PhD at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.<\/p>\n\t<p>Artel Great<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/YazminMonet.jpg\" alt=\"YazminMonet\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Yazmin Monet<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Yazmin Monet<\/strong> Watkins is a poet, comedian, writer, actress, educator, and organizer. Touring her intimate yet political poetry from Obama&#8217;s White House to Johannesburg, and empowering students from Harvard to youth prisons, Watkins&#8217;s body of work weaves art and activism, exploring the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, self-love, and all things Black Girl Magic. Watkins is represented by United Talent Agency and has developed work with Netflix and Comedy Central. She creates with her all-Black female comedy group Obama&#8217;s Other Daughters. You can see their work on Comedy Central and their Shondaland podcast <em>You Down?<\/em> Watkins serves as the co-chair of the Arts &amp; Culture Committee for Black Lives Matter Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\t<p>Yazmin Monet<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Liza-Jessie-Peterson.jpg\" alt=\"Liza-Jessie-Peterson\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Liza Jessie Peterson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Liza Jessie Peterson<\/b> is an <i>artivist<\/i>; an actress, playwright, poet, author, and youth advocate who has been steadfast in her commitment to incarcerated populations both professionally and artistically for more than two decades. Her critically acclaimed one woman show, <i>The Peculiar Patriot<\/i>, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and was featured at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Her play was featured at the Pulitzer Center&#8217;s fall 2020 program; and a documentary is currently in production about her performance at the Angola penitentiary, where she performed and the play was live-streamed throughout the entire prison. <i>The Peculiar Patriot<\/i> premiered at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, followed by Arts Emerson (Boston) and Woolly Mammoth (D.C.); and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 2019. <i>The Peculiar Patriot<\/i> also received a grant from Agnes Gund&#8217;s Art for Justice Fund. Liza is author of <i>All Day: A Year of Love and Survival, Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island<\/i>. She was featured in Ava DuVernay&#8217;s Emmy Award-winning documentary <i>13th<\/i> and was a consultant on Bill Moyers&#8217;s PBS documentary <i>Rikers<\/i>. Liza began her poetry career at the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9 and was a vital member of the enclave of poets that inspired Russell Simmons to bring spoken word to HBO where Liza appeared on <i>Def Poetry<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Liza Jessie Peterson<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MalikaLeeWhitney.jpg\" alt=\"MalikaLeeWhitney\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Rev. Malika Lee Whitney<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Rev. Malika Lee Whitney is artistic director of Pickney Productions, an arts, culture, and education collective based in Harlem.\u00a0 As a performance artist, storyteller, and producer, she is known for presenting culturally relevant content for audiences of all ages. Global travels to Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Central and South America have enriched connections within communities engaged through creative initiatives and social justice advocacy. Rev. Whitney is author of the acclaimed biography <em>Bob Marley: Reggae King of the World<\/em>. Moving pictures have always been of great interest leading to hosting, moderator, and panelist invites. The African Film Festival, Reel Sisters of the African Diaspora, Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Maysles Cinema represent a short list of film programming associations. Rev. Whitney&#8217;s community engagement commitment is exemplified by the Significant Elders Intergenerational Project and coaching the Double Dutch Dreamz. WBAI Radio listeners have enjoyed her insightful arts, public affairs, and children&#8217;s broadcasts for many years.<\/p>\n\t<p>Rev. Malika Lee Whitney<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\t<strong>NBWC2022 Poetry Caf\u00e9:<\/strong> <em>A Tribute to Poet Kamilah Aisha Moon<\/em>\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MalikBrizanReed.jpg\" alt=\"MalikBrizanReed\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Malik Brizan-Reed<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Malik Brizan-Reed<\/strong> (He\/Him\/His) is a 2022 alumni of the predominantly Black institution Medgar Evers College (MEC). He majored in English with a concentration in creative writing. Recently, he has won the MEC schoolwide writing contest for his fiction short story &#8220;On My Own,&#8221; which is based on living in Brooklyn. He has plans to attend Craig Newmark School of Journalism in the fall of 2022 to learn more about arts and culture reporting. He has a passion for writing about Black people&#8217;s experiences in America and the Caribbean. A quote that he lives by is &#8220;Be the author of your own life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\t<p>Malik Brizan-Reed<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AmaCodjoe.jpg\" alt=\"AmaCodjoe\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Ama Codjoe<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Ama Codjoe<\/strong> is the author of\u00a0<em>Bluest Nude<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Blood of the Air<\/em>, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Among other honors, she has received a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer&#8217;s Award, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a NYSCA\/NYFA Artist Fellowship. She lives in New York City and works in social justice and the arts.<\/p>\n\t<p>Ama Codjoe<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AracelisGirmay_PhotoBySheilaGriffin.jpg\" alt=\"AracelisGirmay_PhotoBySheilaGriffin\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Aracelis Girmay<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Aracelis Girmay<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0<em>Teeth<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Kingdom Animalia<\/em>, and the collage-based picture book\u00a0<em>changing, changing<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Teeth<\/em>\u00a0was published by Curbstone Press under the generous and brilliant stewardship of Sandy Taylor. For\u00a0<em>Teeth<\/em>, Girmay received the GLCA New Writers Award, and the book was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award.\u00a0<em>Kingdom Animalia<\/em>\u00a0was the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Most recently, Girmay&#8217;s poetry and essays have been published in\u00a0<em>Granta<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Black Renaissance Noire<\/em>, and <em>PEN America<\/em>, among other places. She has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA.<\/p>\n\t<p>Aracelis Girmay<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RachelElizaGriffiths.jpg\" alt=\"RachelElizaGriffiths\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Rachel Eliza Griffiths<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Rachel Eliza Griffiths<\/strong> is a multimedia artist, poet, and novelist. Her literary and visual work has been published in publications such as <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, <em>American Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>, among many others. Griffiths is widely known for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. Recently, she partnered with Poetry Society of America and Blue Bottle Coffee for their Recollections blend campaign in fall 2021. In 2020, she was selected as the 2020 Stella Adler Poet-in-Residence. Griffiths is also the image designer for the libretto <em>Castor &amp; Patience<\/em>, written by Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears, which will premiere in July 2022 at the Cincinnati Opera House. Griffith&#8217;s recent collection of poetry and photography, <em>Seeing the Body<\/em>, was selected as the winner of the 2021 Hurston\/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize, and nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award. Her forthcoming debut novel, <em>Promise<\/em>, will be published by Random House.<\/p>\n\t<p>Rachel Eliza Griffiths<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Darrel-Alejandro-Holnes.jpg\" alt=\"Darrel-Alejandro-Holnes\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Darrel Alejandro Holnes<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Darrel Alejandro Holnes<\/strong> is an Afro-Panamanian American writer. His\u00a0plays have received productions or readings at the Kennedy Center for the Arts American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), The Brick Theater, Kitchen Theater Company, Pregones Theater\/PRTT, Primary Stages, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Director&#8217;s Lab, Civilians R&amp;D Group, Page 73&#8217;s Interstate 73 Writers Workshop, and other groups. His play <em>Starry Night<\/em> was a finalist for the Eugene O&#8217;Neill Theater Center&#8217;s National Playwrights Conference and the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting. His play\u00a0<em>Bayano\u00a0<\/em>was also a finalist for the Eugene O&#8217;Neill Theater Center&#8217;s National Playwrights Conference. His most recent play,\u00a0<em>Black Feminist Video Game<\/em>, was produced by The Civilians for 59E59, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theater Group, and other theaters and venues. He is the founder of the Greater Good Commission and Festival, a festival of Latinx short plays.<\/p>\n<p>Holnes is\u00a0the author of\u00a0<em>Migrant <\/em>and\u00a0<em>Stepmotherland. <\/em>He is the recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize, and\u00a0a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry). His poems have previously appeared in the <em>American Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry<\/em>, <em>Callaloo<\/em>, <em>Best American Experimental Writing<\/em>, and elsewhere. Holnes is a Cave Canem and CantoMundo fellow who has earned scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers&#8217; Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Postgraduate Writers Conference at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and residencies nationwide, including a residency at MacDowell. His poem &#8220;Praise Song for My Mutilated World&#8221; won the C. P. Cavafy Poetry Prize from Poetry International. He is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, CUNY) where he teaches creative writing and playwriting, and a faculty member of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.<\/p>\n\t<p>Darrel Alejandro Holnes<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/TyehimbaJess.jpg\" alt=\"TyehimbaJess\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Tyehimba Jess<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Tyehimba Jess<\/strong> is the author of two books of poetry,\u00a0<em>Leadbelly<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Olio<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Olio<\/em>\u00a0won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author&#8217;s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.\u00a0It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. \u00a0<em>Leadbelly<\/em>\u00a0was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU alumni, received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018. Jess is a professor of English at College of Staten Island.\u00a0His fiction and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies including <em>Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry<\/em>; <em>Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century<\/em>; <em>Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art<\/em>;<em> Power Lines: Ten Years of Poetry from Chicago&#8217;s Guild Complex<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\t<p>Tyehimba Jess<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NinaAngelaMercer_PhotoBy_AyaImaniMercer.jpg\" alt=\"NinaAngelaMercer_PhotoBy_AyaImaniMercer\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Nina Angela Mercer<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Nina Angela Mercer<\/strong> is a cultural worker. Her plays include\u00a0<em>Gutta Beautiful; Itagua Meji: A Road &amp; A Prayer<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Elijaheen Becomes Wind<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Charisma at the Crossroads;\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>A Compulsion for Breathing.\u00a0<\/em>Nina&#8217;s writing has been published in\u00a0<em>The Killens<\/em>\u00a0<em>Review of Arts &amp; Letters<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Black Renaissance Noire; Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance<\/em>;\u00a0<em>A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine Online<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Break Beat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic; Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Performance Research<\/em>; and\u00a0<em>Represent! New Plays for Multicultural Young People<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomsbury Press). \u00a0Nina is currently a Schomburg Scholar-in-Residence. She is also the executive director of Ocean Ana Rising, Inc.\/OAR. For more information, visit her at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__www.ninaangelamercer.com_&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=OX75XE6Ovbuivb5ZMs_UO0wD4Fwo3w1FbacarYwBPog&amp;r=kBMDdZ6cUyLadm8DhXI5qPRvKIZarIJFrfloRIuxnWY&amp;m=eXQpU8Do25skaAr8Y9bMN4DakLUnt6o34_iZGIjt2SQ&amp;s=688UKBhLrbuCbUVgW-1kxdXpd895sw-lCruvmeLXfWY&amp;e=\">www.ninaangelamercer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Nina Angela Mercer<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JohnMurillo.jpg\" alt=\"JohnMurillo\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">John Murillo<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>John Murillo<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collections <em>Up Jump the Boogie<\/em>, finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award, and <em>Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry<\/em>, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Poetry Society of Virginia&#8217;s North American Book Award, and finalist for the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the NAACP Image Award. His other honors include the Four Quartets Prize from the T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, two Larry Neal Writers Awards, a pair of Pushcart Prizes, the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, an NYSCA\/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.\u00a0Recent poems have appeared in such publications as <em>American Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry<\/em>, and <em>Best American Poetry 2017<\/em>, <em>2019<\/em>, and <em>2020<\/em>.\u00a0 He is an assistant professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Wesleyan University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada University.<\/p>\n\t<p>John Murillo<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joanna-Sit.jpg\" alt=\"Joanna-Sit\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Joanna Sit<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Joanna Sit <\/strong>is the author of three books of poetry-the most recent is <em>Track Works<\/em>. She is working on a book about 1960s New York Chinese immigrants and Cantonese Opera. She teaches at City University of New York, Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in <em>Five Willows<\/em>, <em>Ezra<\/em>, and other journals. Her upcoming poem &#8220;Roshomon Redux&#8221; appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of <em>The Gyroscope Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\t<p>Joanna Sit<\/p>\n\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"trigger-\" data-modal=\"\" data-node=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforblackliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MalikWindsor.jpg\" alt=\"MalikWindsor\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPreview\n\t\t\tmodal-\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"modal-title-\">Malik Windsor<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Malik Windsor <\/strong>is a Brooklyn native hailing from East Flatbush. He is a creative writing major at Medgar Evers College. Malik also works as an educator with the New York City Department of Education. Some of Malik&#8217;s passions include working with youth, writing stories, and traveling. He aspires to complete a collection of short stories in the near future.<\/p>\n\t<p>Malik Windsor<\/p>\n\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\tContact Us\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p><strong>Center for Black Literature<\/strong><br \/>at Medgar Evers College, CUNY (CBL)<br \/>1534 Bedford Avenue, 2nd Floor<br \/>Brooklyn, New York 11216<strong>Main Phone:<\/strong> (718) 804-8883<br \/><strong>Main Office:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@centerforblackliterature.org\">info@centerforblackliterature.org<\/a><br \/><strong>PR Office:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:pr@centerforblackliterature.org\">pr@centerforblackliterature.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\tDonate to CBL Today!\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>To carry out our literary programs and special events, we depend on financial support from the public. Donations are welcome year-round. 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