Laura Vrana Editor

Lorenzo Thomas (1944−2005), was a critic and poet, and published volumes of scholarship as well as numerous essays, including several histories of the Umbra group.   Aldon Lynn Nielsen is the author of Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. He is the George and Barbara Kelly professor of American literature at Penn State University.   Laura Vrana is assistant professor of English specializing in African American literature and poetry at the University of South Alabama.