Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is the author of Harlem Is Nowhere, the first book in a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Vogue, and Essence. She was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for non-fiction in 2006 and a Whiting Writers' Award in 2012.