Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished writer, academic, and visual artist with exhibitions having taken place in Belgium, Morocco, Italy, Cape Verde, Niger, the United States, and Jamaica. In addition to her role as Clinical Full Professor at New York University, Jacqueline was a 2020 Dora Maar/Brown Foundation Fellow in France, a 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow in Morocco, and a 2009-2010 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow in Paris. Jacqueline has received several awards, including the OCM Bocas Award for her book “The Gymnast & Other Positions,” the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short story writing, the Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities from New York University, a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as several awards from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.

Ronald Cummings is an associate professor of Caribbean literature and Black diaspora studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He is the coeditor of three critical volumes, including, with Natalee Caple, Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022); and the editor of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021). His essay “I am all their dreams” is part of the art catalogue for the show “The Plural of He” (curated by Andil Gosine) currently on at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in New York.