Rochelle Spencer is the author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). This fall, she is teaching AfroSurrealism at Sarah Lawrence College and online at Fisk University.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A New Hope: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s Vision for “The Dark Fantastic”
“The Dark Fantastic” poses an essential question about the absence of PoC voices: what happens to our imaginations when those voices are sacrificed?...
Diversity Is Magic: A Roundtable on Children’s Literature and Speculative Fiction
How was it that these readers could imagine dystopian futuristic world, but couldn’t imagine a child of color as integral to a storyline?...
