Ifeona Fulani is a Clinical Professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. Her research interests are Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies, literatures of Africa and its diasporas and Writing.

 

Her recent publications are Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music (University of West Indies Press, 2012), a collection of short stories titled Ten Days in Jamaica (Peepal Tree Press, 2012) and several articles and reviews.

 

Additionally, she has also published a novel titled Seasons of Dust (Harlem River Press, 1997). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Comparative Literature.

 

This is Ifeona’s first Festival as a participating writer and she will be offering the Writing Workshop, “NOTHING HAPPENS NOWHERE: Grounding Your Story in Place.”