Afro-Futurism: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Speculations "The Quality of Sand"

Cherene Sherrard reads from her fiction published in Dark Matter: Reading the Bones and discusses her experiences of writing myth and history in speculative fiction about slavery. Cherene Sherrard was born in Los Angeles, California. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches nineteenth and twentieth century American and African American literature, cultural studies and feminist theory. She holds a B.A. in English and American Studies from U.C.L.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. She is a Cave Canem fellow (an African American poets'collective) and a participant in Hurston-Wright Writer's Week. Her fiction and poetry has been published in several journals including, 5AM, Slipstream, Rosebud, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, and in the anthologies River Crossings: Voices of the Diaspora, and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.