Alexis De VeauxAlexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction, poetry, plays, memoirs and children's lit since 1973, and her work is anthologized i numerous collections. A writer for Essence Magazine for twelve years, Alexis is the recipient of many honors and awards, Alexis penned Warrior Poet, the first biography of the late lesbian poet activist, Audre Lorde; and was tenured faculty at the University at Buffalo, Department of Women's Studies, for more than twenty years, mentoring a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars of black, feminist, and queer studies.
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