Jamie McGhee is a novelist who aspires to build, through language, interactive spaces of resistance and experimentation. She is the author of several books, including You Mean It Or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge (co-authored with Dr Adam Hollowell of Duke University) and the forthcoming graphic novel Not Light, But Fire. Her work has been supported by Zürich University of the Arts in Switzerland, Nawat Fes in Morocco, Instituto Sacatar in Brazil and Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany. She currently instructs Ph.D. students at Humboldt University in Berlin.