ISSUE NINETEEN
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
is a photographer and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her assignments have taken her to Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In her latest project she curated the Public Perspective exhibition series at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Tara Betts is adjunct lecturer at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Stacia L. Brown is a freelance writer and editor residing in New York. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Marisol Díaz was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. Received a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts degree (specialty in photography), City College CUNY, 2002; and an Associate degree in Advertising Arts/Computer Graphics, Bronx Community College, 1993.
Fred Joiner
is a poet living in Washington, DC’s Historic Anacostia
neighborhood. His work has appeared in Beltway, Warpland: A
Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, and Fingernails Across
the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black
Diaspora.
Patricia Spears Jones is a widely anthologized and
award-winning African-American poet, arts writer, and
playwright. She has two collections of poetry: Femme du
Monde (Tia Chucha Press, 2006) and The Weather That Kills
(Coffee House Press, 1995) and the play, ‘Mother’ produced by
Mabou Mines in 1994. Her poetry and prose can be found in
TriQuarterly, Bomb, Callaloo, nocturnes 3, Court Green,
www.mipoesias, Black Issues Book Review, Essence, Telephone, The
World, Agni, Barrow Street, The Poetry Project Newsletter,
www.poetz.com, and Ploughshares.
Dante Micheaux is an emerging poet who resides in New
York City.
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Douglas “D. Scot” Miller is a Bay Area writer, visual
artist , teacher, and curator. A founder of The BlackBard
Writing Collective, and on the board of directors to noctunes
review, he is a contributor to The East Bay Express, SF Weekly,
YRB NYC, Popmatters, Signal To Noise, and has published the
afro-surreal Knot Frum Hear (an excerpt will
appear in the forthcoming Bronx Biannual Two, Akashic Books, May
2007), and Slicker, a book of poems.
Maranda Moses is a freelance writer and blogger. She has
a B.A. in English Literature and lives in Montreal, Canada.
Nicole Sealey is a writer, editor, and Cave Canem fellow.
She has written for a number of arts journals including Code Z:
Black Visual Culture. Her interviews with acclaimed writers
Sapphire and DJ Spooky can be found in Artists and Influence:
Volume XXV and Studio, respectively. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Kellie Tabron is a freelance writer/editor living in
Brooklyn Heights, NY. She has recently been published in the
Buffalo News and Black Enterprise magazine.
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