Writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University
Christina Sharpe is a Writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016)—named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award —and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010). Sharpe will be reading from her third book, Ordinary Notes, which will be released later this Spring.
Multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer
Crystal Z Campbell, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents. Campbell’s films and art have. Campbell’s films and art have screened and exhibited internationally: MIT List Visual Arts Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, The Drawing Center, Nest, ICA-Philadelphia, and the Museum of Modern Art. Campbell is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in Art and Media Study at the University at Buffalo.
Poet and writer in hybrid forms
Lauren Russell is a poet and writer in hybrid forms. She is the author of Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press 2017). A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has also received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
