Devyn Spence Benson is an associate professor of history and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky. She is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America with a focus on race and revolution in Cuba. She is the author of Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (2016) and an editor of Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices (2020).Odette Casamayor-Cisneros is a Cuban-born writer and scholar and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Focused on the Afro–Latin American and Afro-Latinx experiences, her current academic and literary book projects examine self-identification processes and the production of counterhegemonic knowledge in the global African diaspora. She is the author of Utopía, dystopía e ingravidez: Reconfiguraciones cosmológicas en la narrativa postsoviética cubana (2013) and the short-story collection Una casa en los Catskills (2016).Raj Chetty is associate professor in the Department of English at St. John’s University, specializing in Caribbean literature across the English, Spanish, and French languages. His published work focuses on blackness in Dominican literature and culture, anticolonial Caribbean theater, and C. L. R. James’s Haitian Revolution plays.César Colón-Montijo is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. A journalist, documentary filmmaker, and ethnomusicologist, he is currently working on a book manuscript focusing on the life, music, and myth of Afro–Puerto Rican singer Ismael “Maelo” Rivera based on an ethnographic inquiry conducted in Panama, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico.Aisha Z. Cort is a lecturer of Spanish at Howard University. She earned her BA in Spanish from Yale University and her MA and PhD in Spanish literature from Emory University. Her research interrogates Afro-Latinx and Latinx film, literature, and cultural production. She is the author of Representing Race in Revolutionary Cuba: Afrocubanía, Negrometraje, and Cultural Production, 1961–1996 (forthcoming).Mark Harris teaches at the University of Cincinnati. He has organized or participated in numerous exhibitions and art events, including Sparrow Come Back Home, ICA London (2016–17); Songs the Plants Taught Us, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati (2019); Camp Street Corner, Wave Pool, Cincinnati (2020); Facts ’n’ Figures, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna (2020); and 木timbreland木, Cincinnati (2020). His essays have appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Painting, Seismograf, Divergence Press, Counterculture Studies, HUEAS, and Manifold.Aaron Kamugisha is a professor of Caribbean and Africana thought at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus; this fall he will be the inaugural Ruth Simmons Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Smith College. He is the editor of ten books and special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought and the author of Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (2019).Antonio López is an associate professor of English at George Washington University and the author of Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (2012). His current work considers the literatures and cultures of swamplands, indigeneity, and Cuban diaspora from the colonial era to the present in what is today South Florida.J. Bret Maney is an assistant professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where his areas of interest are the practice and theory of translation, American studies, and the digital humanities. His most recent translation is the poetry collection The River in the Belly by Fiston Mwanza Mujila (2021).Nancy Morejón , an award-winning poet, essayist, and translator, was born in Havana in 1944. She is the recipient of Cuba’s National Prize for Literature (2001) and is a member of the Caribbean Carbet Prize Jury since 1990, the Cuban Academy of Language since 1999, and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa Advisory Council. Her most significant awards include the Distinction for National Culture, the Replica Machete of Máximo Gómez (2003), the Golden Crown of Macedonia (2006), the Latin American Studies Association Award (2012), and the status of Asociación Hermanos Saíz Youth Teacher (2013). This year she received the Alejo Carpentier Medal. She is an Honorary Fellow of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, and her most recent publications include Funda de bambula (2019) and Before a Mirror, the City (2020). She is the editor of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba journal Unión and an advisory board member of Casa de las Américas.H. Reuben Neptune is an associate professor in the Department of History at Temple University. He is the author of several published articles and of Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the US Occupation (2007). His current book project, “The Big Lie in US History-Writing: The Making of the ‘Consensus School,’” reconsiders the politics of US historiography in the postwar decades.Vanessa pérez-rosario is a translator and a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (2014), for which a Spanish edition, Julia de Burgos: La creación de un ícono puertorriqueño, is forthcoming this year, and she is currently editing a bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos’s writings. She is the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (2010) and, most recently, the translator of the poetry collection Boat People by Mayra Santos-Febres (2021). She is the managing editor of Small Axe.Sarah Margarita Quesada is an assistant professor of Romance studies at Duke University. Her forthcoming book, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature, engages some of the most widely read Latinx and Latin American authors of the last fifty years with franco/anglo/lusophone African writers and historiography in order to identify the African-derived causes of a “Latin” excision from Africa. The book examines the era of the slave trade, nineteenth-century imperialism, black internationalism, and the rise of UNESCO heritage tourism. Her work is included in the collections Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination (2016) and the Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies (2020), and has appeared in Latino Studies, the Afro-Hispanic Review, and the Journal of Haitian Studies, among others. She is a former cochair representative for Latino studies in the Latin American Studies Association.Lomarsh Roopnarine is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Jackson State University. He has published three books and more than three dozen essays on Caribbean migration and identity. His most recent book, The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora (2018), was the 2018 recipient of the Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award.Mimi Sheller is the inaugural dean of the Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She was formerly a professor of sociology, the head of the Department of Sociology, and the founding director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is a founding coeditor of the journal Mobilities, an associate editor of Transfers, and a past president of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility. Her recent books include Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018) and Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (2020).Carol Sorhaindo (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) is a freelance visual artist with an MA in creative practice. She draws inspiration from “entangled roots” in ruined mill sites and landscapes with industrial and postcolonial connections in places she views as home. Having lived in both the United Kingdom and Dominica, she finds that intertwined histories, especially botanical histories, are of key importance. She incorporates these histories, along with explorations of plant and earth pigments, into textile hangings and installations. She currently lives in Dominica.Nadège Veldwachter is an associate professor of francophone literatures and cultures at Purdue University. Her research focuses on literary sociology, globalization, translation, postcolonial historiography, and genocide studies. She is the author of Littérature francophone et mondialisation (2012). In recent years her research has addressed the evolution of human rights, humanitarianism, and reparation issues in Europe, Israel, and the Caribbean since the Second World War.