Shauna M. Morgan is a poet-scholar who teaches creative writing and Africana literature at the University of Kentucky. She has published poetry in A Gathering Together, ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness, Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, Interviewing the Caribbean, and elsewhere. Her critical work has appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, South Atlantic Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and ariel: A Review of International English Literature, among other periodicals. Shauna tends to a hopeful ancestral garden in the Artists’ Village where she lives in Lexington, Kentucky.