WALIDAH IMARISHA is an author, educator, organizer and poet. She is the author of the collection of poetry Scars/Stars, and the upcoming nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption. She is also one of the co-editors of the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She has taught in the Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and Oregon State University’s Women Gender Sexuality Studies Department.