Gabeba Baderoon is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body (2005), A hundred silences (2006) and The History of Intimacy (2018), and the monograph, Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-Apartheid (2014). She also co-edited the essay collection, Surfacing: on Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (2021) and the special issue of Meridians on “African feminisms: Cartographies for the 21st Century” (2018). Baderoon teaches Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature at Penn State, where she co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. For 2024-2025, she is a fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where she is completing a verse memoir, “Autobiography of Sand: Relief Map of A Drifting Mind.”