Curators
Dr. Reynaldo Anderson
Reynaldo Anderson
Dr. Reynaldo Anderson serves as an Associate Professor of Communication at Harris-Stowe State University in Saint Louis Missouri and is currently the Executive Director and Co-founder of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) a network of artists, curators, intellectuals and activists.
Stacey Robinson
Stacey Robinson, also known as “Black Kirby” is a Graphic Designer and one of the leading Afrofuturist Digital Arts Creatives.
Stacy Robinson aka Black Kirby
Bill T Jones
Bill T Jones
is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Mr. Jones is currently Artistic Director of New York Lives Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. For more information, visit http://www.newyorklivearts.org/.
Sheree Renee Thomas
Award-winning Editor and Author
Sheree Renée Thomas creates art inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and conjure, and the genius culture created in the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020), her debut fiction collection, and widely anthologized, her work appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Anchor, July 2020) and The New York Times. She is also the author of two multigenre/hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct Press, 2011). A Cave Canem Fellow, she has been honored with residencies at the Millay Colony of the Arts, VCCA, Bread Loaf Environmental, Blue Mountain, Tennessee Arts Commission, NYFA, and Art Omi / Ledig House.. She edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning volumes, Dark Matter (Grand Central / Warner Books 2000, 2004), that first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction and was the first black author to be honored with the World Fantasy Award since its inception in 1975. In 2020 she was named a World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Special Professional category for her contributions to the genre. She serves as the tenth editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, the Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora (Illinois State University, Normal), founded in 1975, and reviews new books for Asimov’sA Marvel writer with new work featured in the groundbreaking anthology, Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda edited by Jesse J. Holland (Titan 2021), Sheree is honored to be a Special Guest Writer and Co-Host of the 2021 Hugo Award Ceremonies at Discon III in Washington, DC. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid You can follow her on Instagram @shereereneethomas,Twitter @blackpotmojo, or visit www.shereereneethomas.com
Danielle Littlefield
Writer, Editor and Professor of English and Fine Arts
Danielle L. Littlefield is an Afro-Mississippi writer, editor, and professor, a regular contributor to creative and literary projects in the "MemphisSippi" area. An Afrofuturist, Littlefield works to document and study Black vernacular expressions from the American South and to preserve Black and Afro-Indigenous culture for future generations. Her work appears in the forms of publications, oral history interviews, archiving, the public presentation of collected works of art, literature, and music, and spatial arrangement and design of public spaces. A two-time Callaloo Fellow, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she serves as Assistant Professor of English and Fine Arts at HBCU Rust College in Mississippi, and as a Contributing Editor at Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. You can find her on Instagram @daniellellfield and Twitter @ElletheVeil.
Dacia J. Polk
Award-winning Poet, Actress, and Graphic Artist
Dacia Polk is an award winning Poet and philanthropist who works and resides in St. Louis MO. Her scope of work is as wide as her interests; which includes writing, curating, community organizing, event planning/production, hosting/MC, public speaking, acting, modeling and graphic design.
For her work as a young entrepreneur, activist, and community organizer she received Delux Magazine's 30 under 30 award, Global 1000 Black's in Tech Poet of the Year (2017), Michael Brown Memorial Foundation Chosen For Change Community Service Award, and honors for philanthropy from Anthony Shahid's Tauheed Youth Group.
Dacia has been an organizer for The Black Speculative Arts Movement for over 6 years and is a lead coordinator for its St. Louis based annual festival and convention. She uses her background in Digital Arts and organizing to manage the BSAM website and Instagram account and is Admin for Afrofuturism 2.0.
She currently runs a weekly open mic that runs locally Tuesday nights She can be found @innergyinme in all social media.
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