Lisa C. Moore, President
Lisa C. Moore is the founder and editor of RedBone Press, which publishes work that celebrates the culture of black lesbians and gay men and further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. Moore has two bachelor’s degrees, in accounting (Louisiana State University) and journalism (Georgia State University). Moore is currently in production for sassy b. gonn: Searching for Black Lesbian Elders, a video documentary stemming from her master’s research in anthropology (University of Texas, 2000). Moore was the editor of Lambda Book Report from October 2002 through June 2005.
Steven G. Fullwood, Vice President
Steven G. Fullwood is an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. He founded the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive to aid in the preservation of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, same-gender loving, queer, questioning and in the life history and culture. Fullwood is also the author of Funny, and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Africana.com, Black Issues Book Review, Lambda Book Report, Vibe and other publications. Visit his website at www.stevengfullwood.org.
Marvin K. White, Secretary
Author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated collections of poetry last rights and nothin’ ugly fly (RedBone Press), Marvin K. White is a poet, performer, playwright, visual artist as well as a community arts organizer. His poetry has been anthologized in The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets; My Brothers Keeper; Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians: New Gay Writing; Things Shaped in Passing; Sojourner: Writing in the Age of AIDS; Bum Rush the Page; Role Call; and Think Again, as well as other local and national publications. A former member of the critically acclaimed Pomo Afro Homos, he has led creative arts and writing workshops from inner city elementary schools to youth centers for runaway kids to black gay youth support groups. He is co-founder of B/GLAM (Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement), a Bay area organization whose goal is to preserve, present and incubate black gay artistic expressions. Learn more about Marvin at his website, www.marvinkwhite.com.
Reginald Harris, Treasurer
Reginald Harris is the author of 10 Tongues (Three Conditions Press, 2002). Head of the Information Technology Support department of the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, he is also editor of Kuumba: Poetry Journal for Black People In the Life. A member of the Cave Canem: African-American Poetry Workshop/Retreat family, he has received Individual Artist Awards for both fiction and poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council and was winner in the fiction category of the POZ Magazine/Artery Rage and Remembrance 2001 Literary Contest. His work has appeared in a variety of publications including 5 AM, African-American Review, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Obsidian II and the Men on Men 7, Brown Sugar, and Bum Rush the Page anthologies. His work has appeared in cyberspace on the Blacklight Online (www.blacklightonline.com), BlackStripe, Blithe House Quarterly (www.blithe.com), In Posse Review (webdelsol.com/InPosse), and Salt River Review (www.poetserv.org) web sites.
Samiya Bashir
Samiya Bashir is the author of Gospel, Where the Apple Falls: poems, editor of Best Black Women’s Erotica 2
and co-editor of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. She has also published two chapbook poetry collections: Wearing Shorts on the First Day of Spring & American Visa. Samiya is a founding organizer of Fire & Ink and an alumni fellow of Cave Canem. Her poetry, fiction, articles, essays and editorial work have been widely published. Samiya is principal of Lead Time Consulting, putting over a decade of experience on multiple sides of media and communications to work for non-profit and arts organizations. Keep up @ samiya bashir dot com.
Anthony Hardaway
Anthony R.G. Hardaway was educated in Mississippi; he has earned an AA and BA in speech and dramatic arts. For the past fifteen years, Hardaway has worked for a privately owned black theater company; in his spare time he travels, educating the black gay village about our history while collecting and seeking out nationally known same-gender loving celebrities in order to connect them to the South. Hardaway works with the International Federation of Black Prides, Fire & Ink: A Writers Festival for GLBT People of African Descent, and Brothers United Network of Tennessee.
Jano Layne
Jano Layne has been a writer and a literacy tutor for over twenty years. Layne previously sat on the board of Affinity Community Services in Chicago, which serves lesbian and bisexual women and youth. She is active in sexual health education and outreach within the African-American community. Layne is in love with her native city of Chicago, which feeds her unending passion for music, sports and art.
