Valerie June, Ghost Catcher

Francesca T. Royster is author of the books Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press, 2013), and Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003). She has written scholarly work on Shakespeare, Black Lesbian Country music fans, Prince, and Fela Kuti on Broadway, among other topics. Her creative work has appeared in the anthologies Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships and Identity and Queer Praxis, as well as in Feminist Studies, Slag Glass City, LA Review of Books, The Huffington Post, The Windy City Times, and Chicago Literati. She is currently at work on a memoir on queer family, Fierce Love: A Journey of Black Queer Motherhood, and a book project on country music performance and fandom through a black queer feminist lens. She is professor of English at DePaul University.