Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora

Featuring poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, this volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, it celebrates life and the living by humanising the effects of HIV and giving voices to the affected and afflicted.

Randall Horton is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of ＂The Definition of Place.＂ He lives in Albany, New York. M. L. Hunter is the communication and policy administrator for the STD/HIV/AIDS program of the Chicago Department of Public Health. He has been active in the field for more than 10 years. He lives in Chicago.Becky Thompson is an award-winning editor and the recipient of many fellowships. She lives in Boston.