Lampblack: Diaspora Issue Launch

Featuring

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  Brittany K. Allen

  Brittany K. Allen

  Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. Her prose appears or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Catapult, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Kenyon Review Online, among other places, and her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A MacDowell fellow, her award-winning stage plays have been produced and developed in New York, Portland, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. She is currently working on her first novel.

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  Yolande Clark-Jackson

  Yolande Clark-Jackson

  Yolande Clark-Jackson is an author of children’s picture books, an educator, and multidisciplinary writer with a memoir in progress. She is also the founder of Wine Down and Write, a creative writing workshop that pairs poetry and prose with food and wine. In 2021 she was awarded the McCartt Fellowship from Eckerd College, and she is a 2022 James Weldon Johnson Foundation Artist-in-Residence. She holds a MFA in creative nonfiction, and lives in Orlando, Florida.

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  I.S. Jones

  I.S. Jones

  I.S. Jones is an American / Nigerian poet, essayist, and music journalist. She is a Graduate Fellow with The Watering Hole and holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer’s Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. She is the co-editor of The Young African Poets Anthology: The Fire That Is Dreamed Of (Agbowó, 2020), served as the inaugural nonfiction guest editor for Lolwe, and is an editor at 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, LA Review of Books, the Rumpus, the Offing and elsewhere. Her poem “Vanity” was chosen by Khadijah Queen as a finalist for the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry. She received her MFA in Poetry at UW–Madison where she was the inaugural 2019­­–2020 Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship and the 2021-2022 Hoffman Hall Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient. Her chapbook Spells of My Name (2021) is out with Newfound. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Frontier Poetry.

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  Zeus Sumra

  Zeus Sumra

  Zeus Sumra is a West Indian writer, born and raised in Saint Lucia. His work has been supported by the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College. His fiction has appeared in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and elsewhere. In the past, he has taught English and creative writing at Essex County College and Rutgers University-Newark. He is a 2022-23 CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Hollins University.

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  Tyriek White

  Tyriek White

  Tyriek White is the author of the forthcoming novel, We Are a Haunting (Astra House, 2023). Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Mississippi. He has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the New York State Writer’s Institute.