About
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black trouble maker, a black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational favorite cousin to all life. Alexis is the author of several books, including Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, Dub: Finding Ceremony and most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, winner of the 2022 Whiting Award in Non-fiction, and she is a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize winner in poetry. Alexis was awarded a 2020-2021 National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. She nurtures and is nurtured by her community in Durham, North Carolina and worldwide.
