Aracelis Girmay’s (Chair) most recent publication is Green of All Heads. She served as the editor of So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth and How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton. A finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund. She teaches at Stanford University.

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