Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a community-cherished author. She is the author of six books, including Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (2024) and Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020), and has won numerous awards including the Whiting Award in Nonfiction, the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose.

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