Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is also a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class at the University of Johannesburg. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016) - named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010). Her third book, Ordinary Notes was published in 2023 and is currently long listed for the National Book Awards in Nonfiction and shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Prize in Nonfiction. She has also written the critical introduction to Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand (forthcoming in 2022) and is currently working on three books: What Could a Vessel Be? (Knopf, Canada, FSG, USA, 2025) Black. Still. Life. (Duke UP, 2025) and To Have Been To the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.