giovanni singleton’s debut collection Ascension, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane, won the California Book Award Gold Medal. A collection of her visual work entitled AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper was recently published by Canarium Books after which she received the African American Literature and Culture Society’s 2018 Stephen E. Henderson Award for literary achievement. Her writing is widely anthologized and has been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. singleton has taught at Sonoma State University, Naropa University, New Mexico State University, and most recently held the 2017-18 Holloway Lectureship in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley. She also consults and gives presentations on writing, editing, graphic design, visual art, and publishing at high schools, colleges, and conferences while surfing the rough waves of the academic job market.