Author: Tikkun Bambara

Tikkun is completing a MFA in writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His research focuses on Caribbean Surrealism and Caribbean Romanticism; 20th and 21st century Caribbean and African American feminist engagements with what surrealist poet Suzanne Cesaire called the domain of ‘the marvelous’ as a fertile theory, worldview, and method in black studies and black diasporic literatures. He is working toward completing his first monograph titled Marvel Upon Marvel Upon Marvel: Black study & feminist engagements with Caribbean surrealism. 

He has served as the director and founder of a local art cooperative in South Minneapolis for Black Artists. He has also served as an educator of Critical Ethnic Studies in Minnesota. Bambara has received the Verve Grant, the Beyond the Pure fellowship, The Emerging Writers Grant, and The Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for his work. His essays are available at Mn Artists through the Walker Art Center.