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• Bio: Evie Shockley, Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, is the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry and six collections of poetry, including suddenly we, semiautomatic, and the new black. Most recently, she is editor of the Norton Library edition of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. For her poetry, she has received an NAACP Image Award and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She serves as an Editor at Contemporary Literature, and her critical essays appear in The Black Scholar, New Literary History, Callaloo, The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry, The New Emily Dickinson Studies, and elsewhere. Shockley is at work on a critical project tentatively titled Black Graphics: Colorblindness and the Survival of Black Being and a poetry manuscript exploring the relationships between blackness and time.