Mission: POST NO ILLS, a web-based and print annual publication, aims to provide
a participatory venue for balanced arts criticism and commentary
along with interdisciplinary exchange between artists and arts administrators.

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Kyle G. Dargan

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Allison Curseen

EDITORIAL INTERN

Reginald Dwayne Betts

ADVISORY & CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Thomas Sayers Ellis
R. Scott Heath
G. C. Waldrep
Tiphanie Yanique

ABOUT THE STAFF:

EDITOR

Kyle G. Dargan is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at American University (Wash., D.C.) and the author of three collections of poems, The Listening (UGA 2004), Bouquet of Hungers (UGA 2007) and Logorrhea Dementia (UGA 2010). He was formerly the Managing Editor for Callaloo.

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Allison Curseen is native of nowhere but calls many places home. She enjoys bold colors and rubber ducks. Having completed her BA at Oberlin College and her MFA at American University, she starts what she swears will be her last round of schooling this fall at Duke’s English doctoral program.

ADVISORY & CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Thomas Sayers Ellis, a writer and photographer, is the author of Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf 2010), The Maverick Room (Graywolf, 2005) and the chapbooks The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State, 2001) and Song On (WinteRed Press, 2005). His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry 1997 and 2001. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Lesley University low-residency Creative Writing Program.

R. Scott Heath is a professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University.  His work addresses topics in African-American literature, black public culture, and speculative race theory.  His current book projects include Head Theory: Hip Hop Discourse and Black Public Culture and Virtual Is the New Black: Technologies of Race and Contemporaneity.

G. C. Waldrep is an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University and Director of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. He is the author of the poetry collections Goldbeater’s Skin (Colorado, 2003) and Disclamor (BOA Editions, 2007), as well as a chapbook, The Batteries (2006). His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and New American Writing. He is also the author of “Southern Workers and the Search for Community,” a historical monograph on the lives of Southern textile workers during the early twentieth century.

Tiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010). She was named by the Boston Globe as one of the top sixteen cultural figures to watch for in 2010. Yanique is the winner of a Pushcart, the Kore Press fiction prize, the Boston Review Fiction Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship in creative writing, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has been a fellow in creative writing at Rice University and at the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She is a professor of creative writing and Caribbean literature at Drew University, the Director of Writing and Curriculum at the Caribbean Writers Program, and an assistant editor with Narrative Magazine. She lives between Brooklyn, New York and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

EDITORIAL INTERNS

Reginald Dwayne Betts teaches poetry in public schools throughout the D.C. metropolitan area. He attends the University of Maryland and recently received the Holden Fellowship from Warren Wilson College’s MFA program. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, and Ploughshares. He is currently writing a memoir, A Question of Freedom.