Infinite Constellations
An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions

Khadijah Queen (Edited by), Kiini Ibura Salaam (Edited by), Khadijah Queen (Contributions by), Kiini Ibura Salaam (Contributions by), Kenzie Allen (Contributions by), dg nanouk okpik (Contributions by), Lynn C. Pitts (Contributions by), George Abraham (Contributions by), Yohanca Delgado (Contributions by), Juan J. Morales (Contributions by), Wendy Chin-Tanner (Contributions by), Soham Patel (Contributions by), M.L.J. Sarazin (Contributions by), Brian K. Hudson (Contributions by), Ruth Ellen Kocher (Contributions by), Tonya Liburd (Contributions by), Sheree Renée Thomas (Contributions by), Aerik Francis (Contributions by), Melanie Merle (Contributions by), Cindy Juyoung Ok (Contributions by), Lucien Darjeun Meadows (Contributions by), Sarah Sophia Yanni (Contributions by), Jennifer Elise Foerster (Contributions by), Ra'Niqua Lee (Contributions by), Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint (Contributions by), Alton Melvar M. Dapanas (Contributions by), Thea Anderson (Contributions by), Kenji C. Liu (Contributions by), Pedro Iniguez (Contributions by), shakirah peterson (Contributions by), Shreya Ila Anasuya (Contributions by), André O. Hoilette (Contributions by), Shalewa Mackall (Contributions by), Daniel José Older (Contributions by)

9781573661980

Paperback / softback, published 7 March 2023

286 pages
22.8 x 14.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.272 kg

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.”

CONTRIBUTORS
George 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