Wesley Brown is the author of two novels, Darktown Strutters and Tragic Magic, and the plays
Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, and A Prophet Among Them. He has been a
visiting writer at New York University and the University of Minnesota, as well as a writer-inresidence
at Sarah Lawrence College, Truckee Meadows Community College, the Stonecoast
Writers Conference, and the Oak Ridge Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference. He taught courses in creative writing and literature at Rutgers University from 1979 to 2005.
Cheryl Clarke is the Director of the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and LGBT Concerns and a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at
Rutgers University. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MA and PhD in English
from Rutgers. She is the author of the poetry collections Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of
Black Women, Living as a Lesbian, Humid Pitch, Experimental Love, and, most recently, The
Days of Good Looks. Her book, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement was
published by Rutgers University Press in 2005. |
