Khadijah Queen, born near Detroit and raised in Los Angeles, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. A Cave Canem Fellow, Navy veteran, and founding member of Red Thread Collective, she currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Visit her website at www.imagesound.tk. Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).