Born in Roseau, Dominica, Catherine Lord, Professor Emerita of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of queer utopias and colonialism. She is the author of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (2004) and The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men (2023), as well as Art and Queer Culture (2013). She has been shown at Site Santa Fe, La Mama Gallery, Post Gallery, Thomas Jancar Gallery, Callicoon Gallery, the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, the Carpenter Center, and the Dorsky Museum. She divides her time between Hudson, NY, and Manhattan.