Contributors

Matthew Chin is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Service at Ford-ham University. He received his PhD in anthropology and social work from the University of Michigan. He is currently conducting a historical ethnography on the transnational politics of same-sex desire in late-twentieth-century Jamaica.Robert Decker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University. His work examines representation and narratological functions of space and history in twentieth-century French-language fiction of the Caribbean. His current research project focuses on the novels of Édouard Glissant, Vincent Placoly, and Edwidge Danticat, among others. His research interests include postcolonial theory and literature, narratology, nineteenth-century history and fiction, and ecocriticism.Suzanne C. Persard, born and raised in the Bronx, New York, is a queer scholar, essayist, and poet with Indo-Caribbean roots from Kingston, Jamaica. Her poem “Elegy: 1838,” a series of haikus on Indian indentureship, was featured as part of a profile in 2014 by the Smithson-ian. Currently she is a doctoral student in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University.Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo is an assistant professor of transnational African American literatures in the American Studies and English Departments at Brown University. She is the author of Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018). Her second book project is tentatively titled “Mountain Indigeneity, Horror, and the Photographic Negative.”Sassy Ross is a Saint Lucian American poet living in New York City and a graduate of New York University’s MFA program. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Caribbean Review of Books, sx salon, Caribbean Beat, and Poetry International, among other journals, and in the anthology Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean (2015).Kathleen Deguzman is an assistant professor of English at San Francisco State University. Her research examines anglophone Caribbean literature, with particular interests in the novel, archipelagic studies, and the Caribbean’s links to the literary cultures of imperial Britain and the Asian Americas. Her work has been published in Anthurium, Studies in the Novel, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores is an associate professor of Latino and Caribbean studies and sociology at Rutgers University. Her research investigates how the built environment mediates race and class inequality. She is the author of the award-winning Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City. Her current projects examine the racial aesthetics and architecture of the real estate market, the global circuits of planning ideas, the landscapes produced by Caribbean engineers, Afro-Latina/o/x experience, and mobile segregation.Joan Flores-Villalobos earned her PhD from New York University and is now an assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University. Her book manuscript, “The Silver Women: Intimacy and Migration in the Panama Canal,” explores the labor migration of West Indian women during the Panama Canal construction and the diasporic linkages they created during this period. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Historical Association, among others.Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. Her research on Caribbean literature and history focuses on textual travel and publishing infrastructure in the conformation of Pan-Caribbean discourse and cross-lingual Caribbean solidarities. Her first book (in progress) argues for the centrality of literary magazines to the literature and history of the Caribbean. She also translates regularly between English and Spanish.Sharina Maillo-Pozo is an assistant professor of Latinx studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. She specializes in Latinx and Caribbean literature and culture, with special attention to the cultural production of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora in the United States. Some of her research papers and reviews have appeared in edited volumes and in the academic journals Ciberletras, Centro Journal, The Black Scholar, Chasqui, and Small Axe. She was the 2016–17 National Supermarket Association (NSA) Dominican Studies Fellow. She is working on two book manuscripts: “Beyond Borderlands: Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature and Performance” and “Tracing the Legacy of Camila Henríquez Ureña through Translation and Beyond” (coauthored with Anne Roschelle). She is the 2019–20 secretary/treasurer for the Latino Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association.Caroline Mackenzie is a Trinidadian writer whose short fiction and nonfiction writing has appeared in various publications worldwide. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her debut novel will be published in spring 2020. She currently lives in Trinidad with her husband and son, where she continues to work as a freelance translator alongside her fiction writing.Ira Mathur is an Indian-born multimedia journalist living in Trinidad and Tobago, where she works as a columnist for the Trinidad Guardian. She is the recipient of nine regional awards for excellence in journalism and was shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Prize in 2013 and 2014. In 2018 she was shortlisted for both the Bridport Prize: Short Story and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. An excerpt from her novel in progress is anthologized in Thicker Than Water (2018). She is currently on the longlist of the 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin (whose work also appears on the cover of this issue) is a Haitian visual artist born and raised in the United States, Haiti, and Canada, now living and working in Haiti. She studied graphic design at Valencia Community College in Florida. In 2012, she moved back to Haiti, where she shifted her focus to the fine arts by pursuing her practice full time. She has worked with the nonprofit organization AfricAmérica and teaches at the Centre d’Art. Her multimedia art practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, and resin.

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