Anna LaQuawn Hinton

Dr. Anna LaQawn Hinton is an Assistant professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture in the English Department at the University of North Texas. She has published in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) and CLA Journal, as well as The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body and The Palgrave Handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature. Her monograph, Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Contemporary Black Women's Writing, approaches conversations about aesthetics, spirituality, representation, community, sexuality, motherhood, and futurity, and is currently under contract with the University Press of Mississippi.

She is a disabled-queer-momma Black feminist, who “Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk.(and striving to) Loves herself. Regardless.”*

*Alice Walker