Trimiko Melancon Editor & Author

Trimiko Melancon is an assistant professor of English, African American studies, and women’s studies at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation.

Joanne M. Braxton is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English and the Humanities at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition.