Reginald Flood is a native of south central Los Angeles who now lives in a small town in southeastern Connecticut with his family. Recent publications include “Body Parts: Invisibility, Activism and the Poetics of Labor in The History of Mary Prince,” The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies and poems in Mythium, Hampton-Sydney Review and African American Review.
Roxane Beth Johnson is a freelance writer and editor living in Oakland, California. Her first book of poetry is Jubilee. Her second book is Black Crow Dress. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, The MacDowell Colony and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in: The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, Image, Callaloo, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea and elsewhere.
Amber Flora Thomas is the recipient of several major poetry awards, including the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize. Her published work includes Eye of the Water: Poems, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems. Most recently, her poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among other publications. She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. Currently, she is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the East Carolina University.
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