Walidah Imarisha

Walidah Imarisha is an educator and a writer.  She is the co-editor of two anthologies,  Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements  and  Another World is Possible.  Imarisha is the author of  Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption, which won a 2017 Oregon Book Award, as well as the poetry collection  Scars/Stars. She is  a recipient of the Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and is the Director of the PSU’s Center for Black Studies.