Courtney Angela Brkic

Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of Stillness: and Other Stories and The Stone Fields, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, a translator and as a forensic archeologist in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Veronica Chambers

Prolific author best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, Mama’s Girl, which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.

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Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is a journalist and the author of several science fiction and nonfiction books, including the national bestseller “Four Lost Cities.”

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Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels “Ancestor Stones,” “The Memory of Love” and “The Hired Man,” as well as the memoir “The Devil That Danced on the Water.” Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several works of poetry as well as “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals” and “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.”

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