• Naomi Extra
• Rutgers University, Newark (American Studies), Rutgers, New Brunswick (WGSS)

Naomi Extra is a freelance writer, poet, and scholar. She received her PhD in American Studies at Rutgers, Newark where her research focused on black feminist engagement with sex-positivity through the work of three non canonical writers of the 1970s and 80s. In both her creative and scholarly work, she explores the themes of agency and pleasure in the lives of black women and girls. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Zora, Glamour, Lit Hub, The Lily, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her manuscript, Ratchet Supreme, was selected by poet Tiana Clark as the winner of the 2019 BOAAT Chapbook Prize. Currently, she is an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices Fellow in Feminist Knowledge and Social Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Speaking In:

• Radical Love and Black Queer Histories