Ajuan Mance

Ajuan Mance is a lifelong artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Ajuan's books include Inventing Black Women: African American Women's Poetry and Self-Representation (U Tenn Press); Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century (U Teen Press); as well as the upcoming 1001 Black Men: Portraits of Masculinity at the Intersections (Stacked Deck Press); and Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance. Ajuan’s illustrations and comics have also appeared in several anthologies, including,Drawing Power, from Abrams Press, winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Anthology; She Votes, from Chronicle Books; COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, from Penn State University Press, and others. Ajuan holds an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a B.A. in English from Brown University. You can learn more about Ajuan's art and comics at AjuanMance.com