RONE SHAVERS

Rone Shavers is author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish. He writes in multiple literary genres and his work has appeared in numerous journals, including Action-Spectacle, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Fence, Notre Dame Review, and The Vestal Review. His honors include a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers and Mentoring Artist-in-Residence fellowship at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a Nancy B. Negley Writer-in-Residence fellowship to the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, an Arthur T. Schwab Poet-in-Residence fellowship to MacDowell, and the McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing fellowship at Davidson College. Shavers is fiction editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and Associate Professor of English at The University of Utah.