Speakers
- Chiyuma Elliott
- U. C. Berkeley, Assistant Professor
Chiyuma Elliott is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. A former Stegner Fellow, Chiyuma’s poems have appeared in the African American Review, Callaloo, the Notre Dame Review, the PN Review, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Cave Canem, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. Chiyuma is the author of two books: California Winter League (2015) and Vigil (2017). She is currently at work on a monograph about literary and visual representations of black rural life in the 1920s.