Remica Bingham-Risher

A Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet, Remica Bingham-Risher's most recent books are Room Swept Home (Wesleyan, 2024) and Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up (Beacon, 2022). She is the director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University.

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Courtney Faye Taylor

Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), which won the Cave Canem Prize and the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation. It was a finalist for the NAACP Image and Lambda Literary awards.

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Bettina Judd

Bettina Judd's research focus is on Black women's creative production and feminist thought. Her most recent book is Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Thought. Her collection of poems PATIENT, won the 2013 Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize. She is currently assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Robin Coste Lewis

Robin Coste Lewis is the author of To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2022 and 2015). She is a Ford Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith's most recent books are: Unshuttered, Incendiary Art (Kingsley Tufts, Pulitzer finalist, LA Times Book Prize), Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Lenore Marshall), and Blood Dazzler (National Book Award finalist). She is an academy chancellor, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner, Guggenheim fellow, and Princeton professor.

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