Wendy Chin-Tanner – författare

A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging  The innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writers, South Asian writers, East Asian writers, Black American writers, Latinx writers, and Caribbean and Middle Eastern writers. These are visions both familiar and strange, but always rooted in the mystery of human relationships, the deep honoring of memory, and the rootedness to place and the centering of culture.The writers in this anthology mirror, instruct, bind and unbind, myth-make and myth-invert, transform and transmute, make us belly-laugh or hum our understanding, gasp or whisper gently, and remember that sometimes we need to holler and fight as we grieve. Any dangers herein, imagined or observed in poem and story, transport us: moving from latent to extant, then unleashed.This work does not presume; it presents and blossoms, creating a constellation of appearances, a symphony of belonging.“In collecting this work,” note editors Khadijah Queen and K. Ibura, “we felt humbled by the love threaded throughout the voices speaking to us in stories and poems that vault beyond expectation and settle in our consciousness as an expansion of what’s possible when we tend to one another with intention. We felt lifted, held aloft in these arrangements of language. We hope that as you read each story and poem, you will find the same sense of empowerment and celebration that we know has sustained us over countless generations, and in their beauty and humor and intelligence and complexity, continue to enrich us still.”CONTRIBUTORSGeorge Abraham / Kenzie Allen / Shreya lla Anasuya / Thea Anderson / Wendy Chin-Tanner / Alton Melvar M. Depanas / Yohanca Delgado / Jennifer Elise Foerster / Aerik Francis / AndrÉ O. Hoilette / Brian K. Hudson / K. Ibura / Pedro Iniguez / Ruth Ellen Kocher / Ra’Niqua Lee / Tonya Liburd / Kenji C. Liu / Shalewa Mackall / Lucien Darjeun Meadows / Melanie Merle / Juan J. Morales / Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint / Cindy Juyound Ok / Daniel JosÉ Older / Soham Patel / Lynn C. Pitts/ Kahadijah Queen / Sheree RenÉe Thomas /  Sarah Sophia Yanni / dg nanouk okpik / shakirah peterson

"Inspiring, disturbing, and triumphant." --FOREWORDEmbedded with aneco-terrorist group hellbent on explosive direct action, investigativejournalist Owen Graham is enmeshed in a dangerous culture on the politicalfringe. Ordinary citizens, frustrated by inequality and oppression and abureaucracy’s resistance to change, are starting to go off the grid anddisrupt the status quo. But the fringe is poised to go mainstream, andOwen’s days as a passive observer are running short.While a series of escalatingmisunderstandings land an idealistic public school teacher in the middle of ahostage situation and the sights of an overeager federal agent who has beentrailing Owen for months, he intervenes in a desperate split-second decision.Owen’s old life is gone forever. Now he’s on the run with a trio offellow crusaders, all fighting for a better world but now labeled as terroristsby the government. Disparate people on all sides, each convinced they’reright – and doing the right thing -- are now spinning towards each otherin an inexorable spiral ofviolence.AMERICAN TERRORIST is ahigh-speed chase across the country in search of radical solutions to injustice,inspiring a movement that may be snuffed out before it starts.