Ed Pavli is the author of Live at the Bitter End; Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener; Let s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.
Ivelisse Rodriguez s short story collection, Love War Stories, was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is founder and editor of an interview series published in Centro Voices, the e-magazine of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.