Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde was named a Publisher’s Weekly top ten book of 2024. She is also the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony. She is a winner of the Windham-Campbell prize in poetry and the Whiting Award in non-fiction. Alexis is a proud queer Black feminist love evangelist. The Anguilla Literary Festival called Alexis “the pride of Anguilla.” She lives in Durham, North Carolina.