Asha Jeffers
Dr. Asha Jeffers is associate professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on literature about the children of immigrants – the second generation – across national and ethnic lines, with a particular emphasis on how gender construction intersects with second generation subjectivity. Her poetry chapbook Mundane, Majestic was published by Anstruther Press in 2021 and her short story “The Scar” appears in The Puritan magazine issue 30.
Rome Aboh
Romanus (Rome) Aboh is a writer-critic, and an Associate Professor of English and African Studies at the University of Calabar. His poetry explores various social issues, and his research focuses on Nigerian literature, gender and sexuality, African onomastics, pop culture and the new media. Aboh is an African Humanities Program postdoctoral fellow and a recipient of the Carnegie Fund for Conference Attendance. He is the author of A Torrent of Terror (poems) and Above the Rubble (novel).
Mathias Iroro Orhero
Mathias Iroro Orhero is an Assistant Professor of African Studies at Louisiana State University. He researches postcolonial, Black, and African cultures, with a special focus on poetic discourse in Nigeria’s Niger Delta and the Black diaspora in North America. He is also interested in minority subjectivities and how they respond to the nation-state through literary and cultural production.