Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere is a professor of African Diasporic literature and of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She holds a PhD in English from the University of South Africa. Her dissertation focused on Sarah Baartman, “an enslaved Khoisan woman in the early 19th century who was taken to Europe and made to work in ‘freak shows,’” and appears in the anthology she co-edited, Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman (Springer, 2011). Dr. Gordon-Chipembere’s writing has also been published in Essence Magazine, along with a monthly series, “Musings from An Afro-Costa Rican,” in the Tico Times. She is a Senior Co-editor with Eduardo Paulino of the AfroLatin@ Diasporas Book Series from Palgrave, where they prioritize the voices of emerging Afro-Latin@ scholars. Her current writing focuses on slavery and the legacy of Afro-descendants in Latin America, including her historical fiction novel Finding La Negrita (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022). Dr. Gordon-Chipembere is the founder and host of the annual Tengo Sed Writing Retreats in Costa Rica, an exclusive gathering of global BIPOC writers in Costa Rica for a week. She was born in New York to Costa Rican/Panamanian parents and eventually moved to Costa Rica with her husband and two children.
