Faith Adielé, Author Born of a Nordic-American mother and a Nigerian father, Faith Adiele was raised as the sole African girl on a farm in the Pacific Northwest. After flunking out of Harvard, she shaved her head, took a vow of silence, and moved into the forest, becoming Thailand's first...
Canisia Lubrin, Author Canisia Lubrin is a writer, teacher, critic, and poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart/PRH Canada. Her books include Voodoo Hypothesis (2017) and The Dyzgraphxst (2020). Lubrin is the recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize, and others. Finalist...
Shivanee Ramlochan, Author Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian writer. Her debut, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017), was shortlisted for a 2018 Forward Prize for Poetry. Recently, her poems have been anthologized in 100 Queer Poems (Faber); After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia...
Yona Deshommes, Publisher Yona Deshommes began her professional career in education as a certified teaching assistant and Academic Coordinator at Edwin Gould Academy, a residential treatment center in Chestnut Ridge, NY where she created and facilitated several cultural and educational programs for at-risk youth from the juvenile justice and foster...