Acknowledgments


@Salon Special Thanks 2017

Brigid Ackerman, Joe Amato, Julia Andersen, Alison Bailey, Steven Barcus, Brian Beam, Christopher Breu, Kirsten Bridgemen, Becca Chase, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Christopher De Santis, Ryan Denham, Erin Durban-Albrecht, Ryan (and Gawyn) Edel, Kass Fleisher, Ky Ford, Deb Fox, Joann Goetzinger, Alfonso Gosálbez, Gabriel Gudding, Steve Halle, Rachel Kay Hatch, Claire Hedden, Sherrie Howe, Doug Johnson, Susan Kalter, Laura Kennedy, Hannah Kroonblawd, Bridget Langdon, Libby Lind, Sarah Lyons, Anya Malley, R. C. McBride, Jeanne Merkle, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Eric Pitman, Scott Rankin, Paula Ressler, Sanam Shahmiri, Benjamin Sutton, Danielle Sutton, Janis Swanton, Amy Tellor, Amish Trivedi, Jade Urban, Teigha Van, Tessy Ward, Claire Weinzierl, and Tracy Widergren.

With abiding gratitude to:

Eric Shellito and Artezen Design, the English Department’s Publications Unit at Illinois State University, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, the Illinois State University Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Illinois State University Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the McLean County Arts Center, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency, for their generous support.