Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

[1] Rhodes-Pitts is from Houston, Texas, graduated from Harvard and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom.

[1] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Vogue, and Essence among other publications.

Her 2011 book, Harlem Is Nowhere, is the first part of a planned trilogy on African Americans and utopia.

[1] The following books in the trilogy will concern Haiti and the Southern United States.

[1] Harlem Is Nowhere developed from Lenox Terminal, a 2004 essay Rhodes-Pitts wrote for Transition magazine.