Matt Richardson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published articles in various academic journals such as TSQ, GLQ, Sexuality Research and Social Policy,The Journal of Women’s History and Black Camera. He has also published fiction and poetry in a variety of anthologies and journals such as Sinister Wisdom and Feminist Studies. He is a member of the Black Sexual Economies Collective and co-editor of Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital (2019). His monograph is entitled, The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution (2013) and he is a co-editor of the journal Feminist Studies’ 2011 Special Issue on Race and Transgender Studies and the 2017 special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly’s The Issue of Blackness. Black Canvas is his first novel. Black Canvas is Matt’s second book.