Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 37 (2022) Winner
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
アレクシス・ポーリン・ガムズ
Arekishisu Pōrin Gamuzu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1982 （Summit, New Jersey, U.S.）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Durham, North Carolina
Career
- Occupations
- Author, Independent scholar, Poet, Activist, Educator
- Active Years
- 2010-
- Affiliations
- Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind (Founder and Director), BrokenBeautiful Press (Founder)
- Influenced By
- Audre Lorde, June Jordan, M. Jacqui Alexander, Dionne Brand, Lydia Gumbs (grandmother)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnard College | — | Unknown | — | — | United States |
| Duke University | — | English, African and African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies | PhD | — | United States |
Barnard College
Unknown
Country:
United States
Duke University
English, African and African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies
Degree:
PhD
Country:
United States
PhD obtained
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prize | — | Poetry | Windham Campbell Prizes | Winner |
| — | The Pride of Anguilla, Anguilla Literary Festival | — | — | Anguilla Literary Festival | Recipient |
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2023
Category:
Poetry
Organization:
Windham Campbell Prizes
Result:
Winner
The Pride of Anguilla, Anguilla Literary Festival
Organization:
Anguilla Literary Festival
Result:
Recipient
Awards & Nominations
The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 11 (2023) Winner
Works
Major Works
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
2017 PoetryA poetry collection engaging with Hortense Spillers, focusing on Black feminist fugitivity.
Black FeminismFugitivityPoetic Liberation
M Archive: After the End of the World
2018 Speculative DocumentaryExplores Black life and feminist metaphysics post-apocalypse.
Environmental DegradationAnti-BlacknessIndigenous Knowledge
DUB: Finding Ceremony
2020 Interdisciplinary HandbookUses marine life as metaphor for Black social condition.
Marine MammalsInterspecies RelationsBlack Feminism
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
2020 Non-fictionLessons from marine mammals for Black women.
Human-Nature ConnectionInterlocking OppressionsUniversality of Breath
Bibliography
- Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (2017)
- M Archive: After the End of the World (2018)
- DUB: Finding Ceremony (2020)
- Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020)
- Survival Is a Promise (2024)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Genre-defyingExperimentalSpeculativePoetic
- Recurring Motifs
- Black FeminismEcological DisruptionMarine LifeAncestral Memory
Legacy
Known as a 'Black Feminist love evangelist,' explores ecological disruption and Black feminist theory in her experimental triptych.
Trivia
- Describes herself as a 'Queer Black Troublemaker'
- 'Aspirational cousin to all sentient beings'