Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony. She is the founder of Brilliance Remastered, an online network and series of retreats and online intensives serving community accountable intellectuals and artists in the legacies of Audre Lorde’s profound statement in 'The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House' that the preceding statement is “only threatening to those…who still think of the master’s house as their only source of support.”
Alexis’s poetry and fiction appears in many creative journals and has been honoured with inclusion in Best American Experimental Writing, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and honours from the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize and the Firefly Ridge Women of Colour Award. She has been poet-in-residence at Make/Shift Magazine and is currently Creative Writing Editor at Feminist Studies.
