Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. Her writing has appeared in publications including Make/Shift, Left Turn, The Abolitionist, Ms. Magazine, and more. She holds a PhD in English, African and African American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University and is the co founder of Black Feminist Film School, an initiative to screen, study, and produce films with a Black feminist ethic. Alexis has won the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry and the Whiting Award in Nonfiction. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction.