Melvin Dixon is the author of a forthcoming novel, Read Leaves, Vanishing Rooms, and translated The Collected Poems Of Leopold Sedar Senghor in 1990. He has published Change Of Territory, a collection of poems, as well as numerous short stories and scholarly articles. In addition to being an editor for Callaloo journal, he is currently scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and is a Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate School and Queens College.