Habiba Ibrahim is an associate professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism, (Minnesota, 2012), and Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life (NYU, 2021). In 2022, Black Age received the honorable mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association. She is the co-editor of the January 2022 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, “Black Temporality in Times of Crisis.” Among other venues, Ibrahim’s work appears in African American Review, American Literary History, and Keywords for African American Studies.