Derrick Harriell is director of the African American Studies Program and Ottilie Schillig Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. His previous collections of poems include Stripper in Wonderland, Cotton, and Ropes, winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. Kofi Antwi is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He is a graduate of St. Joseph's College MFA creative writing program, where he teaches English. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island by parents of Ghanaian descent, Antwi's poetry has been published by ​​Writers Guild, Agbowo, Rise Up, Gumbo Media, Kalahari Review, Breadcrumbs and Rigorous. Antwi has a forthcoming poetry chapbook with Kattywompus Press titled Tidal Wave.