Herman Beavers

Herman Beavers is a professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches 20th- and 21st-century African American literature and poetry writing. He is also a poet, with work appearing in Cleaver Magazine and several other journals and anthologies. His books include the chapbook Obsidian Blues and a scholarly study of geography in Toni Morrison's novels. He was a 2023 Resident Fellow at La Maison du Dora Maar in France.