IN THE BLACK Edited by Alethea Prince Coming October

In a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry, and hip hop, some of Black Canada's foremost writers from across generations explore history, community, love, and healing.

Editor Althea Prince was born in Antigua, the Caribbean, and has lived in Canada, the U.S., and England. She has taught sociology, first at York University and the University of Toronto, and now at Ryerson University–The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, where she won the Kay Livingstone Faculty Award in 2011. Dr. Prince is known for her work as an essayist and a fiction writer. Her published works include The Politics of Black Women's Hair (cultural studies), Being Black (cultural studies), Loving This Man (novel), Ladies of the Night (stories), Feminisms and Womanisms: A Women's Studies Reader (co-editor), and How the Starfish Got to the Sea (children).