Juda Bennett is the author of Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts (2014), Essays Unzipped (2007), The Passing Figure (1997), and numerous articles on race and sexuality. He is a professor of English at The College of New Jersey. He is completing a memoir on gender expression and the 1970s.

Winnifred Brown-Glaude is the author of Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (2011), the editor of Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies (2009), and the author of numerous articles on race, gender, and sexuality in the Anglophone Caribbean. She is an associate professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology & Anthropology at The College of New Jersey. She is currently working on a book that examines the impact of neoliberalism on the Jamaican society and public imagination.

Cassandra Jackson is the author of Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2004) and Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (2010). She is a professor of English at The College of New Jersey. She has published commentary on race in American culture at the Huffington Post and the Washington Post. She is completing Grief’s Children, a memoir about being black and infertile.

Piper Kendrix Williams is the coeditor with Brian Norman of Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow (2012). She is an associate professor in the Departments of English and African American Studies at The College of New Jersey. She is currently working on A Black American Love Story, a book that merges memoir, family biography, and cultural criticism.