A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Louis M. Maraj is assistant professor of English in the Composition Program at the University of Pittsburgh and cofounder of Digital Black Lit and Composition (DBLAC), a mentorship network of Black graduate students in fields studying language. He has received a Conference on College Composition and Communication Scholars for the Dream Award, the Arthur Rense Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and various institutional honors for teaching and digital media projects. Maraj's work can be found in Precarious Rhetorics, Prose Studies, and Women's Studies in Communication.