When the World Wounds

"Salaam’s stories work from mutual touchstones: the illustration of sex as an act of power; a visceral relationship to the human body . . . and the examination of the struggle to find oneself, particularly as a woman."Richard Larson, Strange Horizons

Writing of the "other," Kiini Ibura Salaam honed her perspective from growing up in an activist family eschewing tv, sugar, meat, convention, while centralizing self-worth, intellectual rigor, and the value, importance, and rights of black folk.

Kiini Ibura Salaam’s first collection Ancient, Ancient (Aqueduct Press, 2012) won the James Tiptree Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.