Born: 1982, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished from the Library of Congress. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several works of poetry as well as “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals,” which won a Whiting Award in 2022. She has received a Windham Campbell Prize and fellowships from the Center for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her new biography, “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde,” is featured at the 2024 National Book Festival.
The following is republished from the National Endowment for the Arts. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. In 2020, she was awarded the National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book-in-progress, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: A Cosmic Biography.