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Rone Shavers | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 18, 1970 |
| Occupation | Novelist, reviewer, critic |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Bennington College[1], The New School, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Silverfish (novel) (2020) |
| Notable awards | A finalist for the 2021 Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Award |
| Website | |
| https://www.roneshavers.com | |
Rone Shavers, PhD (born June 18, 1970[citation needed]) is an American author, literature critic, and reviewer. He is an Associate Professor of English at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.[2]
Literary career[edit]
Shavers is the author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish (Clash Books, 2020): a finalist for the 2021 Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Award[3] in Fiction[4] and one of The Brooklyn Rail's "Best Books of 2020."[5]
Silverfish, which has been described as "hilarious" and "profound"[6], is a critically acclaimed novel that engages with the question: "what if the apocalypse already happened and you just didn’t notice?"[7] The novel imagines a world in which corporatization has infused every aspect of our lives so thoroughly that we are no longer aware of what we have lost. The book is "a blistering critique of our past and present, producing an especially apocalyptic prediction for these here already shaky United States."[8]
Much of Shavers' short fiction is influenced by the Crônica which is a Portuguese-language genre featuring short, newsy, informal writing. He describes it as "a looser form of narrative, practiced by writers like Fernando Pessoa and Clarice Lispector".[9] Latin American writers often use the Crônica as an experimental narrative form to respond to political situations and crisis.[10] Shavers' Crônicas mirror the amorphous nature of the genre, but his work engages with and explores observations about various social and political African American experiences. Author Kenning JP Garcia describes Shavers' Crônicas as satire "which pretends also to be playful but is making the reader work as the writer himself has worked."[11] This work has appeared in numerous journals, including Action Spectacle, Another Chicago Magazine, Big Other, Black Warrior Review, BOMB Magazine, PANK, and The Vestal Review. A collection of his work: Ten Crônicas: A prose chapbook was published by The Magnificent Field press in May 2021.
Shavers has also made significant contributions to the field of Afrofuturism. In addition to writing fiction that has been widely described as Afrofuturist, Shavers co-edited the Special 'Afrofuturism' issue that appeared in the Journal of Science Fiction Studies in 2007[12] along with Mark Bould. He also co-curated (with Gallery Director Judie Gilmore), and wrote the catalog for the 2019 art exhibition titled, "In Place of Now: Established and Emerging Artists Explore Black Identity through an Afrofuturist Lens," which featured the artwork of Willie Cole, Renee Cox, and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, among others, and took place at the Opalka Gallery of Sage College in Albany, NY.[13]. Russell Sage College described the exhibit as "bring[ing] together emerging and established black artists whose work engages in the politically subversive acts of picturing “otherness,” reinventing the past, and reclaiming the future."[14] "The exhibition...helped expand [Afrofuturism]...to include more-grounded African diaspora identity politics alongside the otherworldly."[15]
Shavers' work in defining Afrofuturism will appear as an academic essay called "Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Culture" forthcoming in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction.
He has held the Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers and Mentoring Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts,[16] a Nancy B. Negley Writer-in-Residence fellowship at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France,[17] and an Arthur T. Schwab Poet-in-Residence fellowship at MacDowell.[18]
Shavers has also been the recipient of artist-in-residence fellowships to the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts,[19] the Loghaven Artist Residency,[20] Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA),[21] VCCA France, and several other locales.
He will be a Visiting Writer at Colorado College in May 2024[22]
Shavers is fiction and hybrid genre editor at the award-winning journal, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora,[23] and his critical essays and reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as American Book Review, The Critical Flame, Electronic Book Review, Fiction Writers Review, and The Quarterly Conversation.
Teaching Career[edit]
Shavers is Associate Professor of English at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.[2] He has previously taught courses at The College of Saint Rose, the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In spring 2024, Shavers will serve a one-semester visiting appointment as the 2023–2024 McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.[24]
BIBLIOGRAPHY[edit]
Long Fiction[edit]
SILVERFISH from Clash Books, 2020.
Ten Crônicas: A prose chapbook from The Magnificent Field press, May 2021.
Recent Short Fiction[edit]
"Effing Florida" and "Ode to Ron DeKKKantis" in Unlikely Stories, Vol. 5: September 2023.
"Three Crônicas" in Action, Spectacle magazine, Summer 2023.
"Cronica of the Grand Allusion" and "Crônica del Crepúsculo" in Hairstreak Butterfly Review, Issue 5: March 6, 2023.
"Rooted/Indigenous" and "Black Powerful" in Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution Natasha Marin, editor, McSweeney's Books, 2022.
"Four Crônicas" in BOMB magazine, Issue 160, Summer 2022.
"Crônica of the Hermit" online at Pine Hills Review, May 19, 2021.
"Trigger Fail" online at Taint Taint Taint Magazine, May 15, 2021.
"Crônica on The Aesthetic" and short flash piece titled "My Sporting Life" in Bull Magazine, April 22, 2021.
Reviews[edit]
Round-up review of several new BIPOC books for the "What I'm Reading Now" column of Tarpaulin Sky, July 2020.
"Monster Mash" a review of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, American Book Review, Vol. 40, Number 6, September/October 2019.
"Identity Crisis", a review of Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett, American Book Review, Vol. 37, Number 6, September/October 2016.
"An Essential One", a review of Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen, American Book Review, Vol. 37, Number 2, January/February 2016., Winter 2011.
Critical Work[edit]
"Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Culture." Academic essay forthcoming in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Form and (Dis)Content, Volume II: Speculative and Experimental Approaches to Language by Authors of Color Introduction and editorial work by Rone Shavers. A compilation showcasing work by Krista Franklin, Kenning JP Garcia, Douglas Kearney, and Jennifer Maritza McCauley in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Vol 46.1, Spring 2021.
Edited Collections[edit]
"Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of 'Post-Blackness'" a critical essay in The Trouble With Post-Blackness, Houston A. Baker and K. Merinda Simmons, eds. Columbia University Press, 2015.
"The End of Agape: On the Public Debates Surrounding the Work of William Gaddis," a critical essay in Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System, Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers, eds. University of Alabama Press, 2007.
"Special Issue on Afrofuturism." Science Fiction Studies no. 102. Vol. 34, part 2. July 2007. Co-editor, with Mark Bould.
Speak Theater and Film! The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Playwrights, Actors, and Directors. G+B Arts International. Associate Editor.
Speak Fiction and Poetry! The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Writers. G+B Arts International. Associate Editor.
Speak Art! The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Artists. G+B Arts International. Associate Editor.
Interviews[edit]
"Recuperating History: An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita" in Fiction Writers Review. August 14, 2013.
"Interview with Percival Everett". BOMB magazine, No. 88, Summer 2004.
"Paul Beatty Interview". BOMB magazine, No. 72, Summer 2000.
References[edit]
- ^ "Black Studies: Notable Alumni". Bennington College.
- ^ a b "English Department Faculty Directory". The University of Utah.
- ^ "Firecracker Awards". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
- ^ "CLMP Announces the 2021 Firecracker Awards Finalists". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. May 10, 2021.
- ^ Fuerst, James W. (October 6, 2020). "Rone Shavers's Silverfish". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ^ Knudson, Cory Austin. "Silverfish – Rone Shavers". CSU Poetry Center.
- ^ "Rone Shavers - Silverfish". Clash Books.
- ^ Provance, Phill (2022). "Silverfish by Rone Shavers (review)". American Book Review. 43 (3): 91–95. doi:10.1353/abr.2022.0098. S2CID 258104612.
- ^ "Higher learning with Dr. Rone Shavers". St. Rose Magazine. December 2019.
- ^ Castillo, Antonio (2022). "The New Latin American Journalistic Crónica, Emotions and Hidden Signs of Reality". Global Media Journal Australia Edition.
- ^ Garcia, Kenning JP. "A preview of Rone Shavers' Crônicas". Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
- ^ "Special 'Afrofuturism' issue. Science Fiction Studies 102. Volume 34, Part 2". DePauw University. 2007.
- ^ "Opalka Gallery:In Place of Now".
- ^ "In Place of Now Opening Reception". Russell Sage College. February 2017.
- ^ Jaeger, William (March 7, 2019). "Opalka's In Place of Now has Afrofuturist focus". Times Union.
- ^ "Atlantic Center for the Arts: Rone Shavers". Atlantic Center for the Arts.
- ^ "La Maison Dora Maar Fellow: Rone Shavers". La Maison Dora Maar et L'Hôtel Tingry.
- ^ "MacDowell Fellow in Literature: Rone Shavers". MacDowell.
- ^ "Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts: Rone Shavers (2011, 2017)".
- ^ "Loghaven Artist-in-Residence: Rone Shavers".
- ^ "VCCA Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors".
- ^ "2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series". Colorado College.
- ^ "About Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora". Obsidian.
- ^ "Human Resources". Davidson College. September 8, 2023.