CHANTAL JAMES lives in Washington, DC, and has been published across genres—as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and book reviewer—in such venues as Catapult, Paste Magazine, Harvard’s Transition Magazine, The Bitter Southerner, Obsidian, Callaloo, and more. Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship in creative writing to Morocco, and a finalist position for the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction prize from the North Carolina Literary Review for 2019. She was nominated for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book from the National Book Critics Circle, chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of their ten most anticipated fiction books of the year, selected by the American Book Sellers’ Association for its Indie Next List, and selected by writers Deesha Philyaw, Kiese Layon, and Robert Jones, Jr. for their inaugural Lit 16 reading series for her debut novel None but the Righteous published by Counterpoint Press. For over a decade she has contributed regularly to On the Ground, a radio show airing voices of resistance from the national’s capitol on 89.3FM locally and internationally through the Pacifica Network.