Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a community-cherished Black feminist writer and scholar and an aspirational cousin to all life. Alexis is the author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Alexis is a 2024 Monument Lab Fellow, a 2023 Windham-Prize Winner in Poetry and NEA Fellow, a 2022 Whiting Award winner in non-fiction, and a 2020-2021 National Humanities Center Fellow.

Alexis is also the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press, 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke University Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke University Press, 2018) and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press, 2016). She is also the coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016).