Erica Vital-Lazare is a professor of creative writing and marginalized voices in dystopian literature at the College of Southern Nevada.Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in Sojourner, Thrice Fiction, Callaloo II, The Citron Review, Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review and The Baffler. She is a cofounder of the nonprofit the Obodo Collective and its annual Our Mothers’ Gardens Book Festival at Obodo Urban Farm. She is also cohost of the podcast The Women Who Saved History and editor of the literary series Of the Diaspora, published by McSweeney’s.