Rone Shavers is author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish, just released by Clash Books. His fiction has appeared in various journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Big Other, Black Warrior Review, PANK, and The Operating System. Shavers’ non-fiction essays and essay-length reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as American Book Review, BOMB, Electronic Book Review, Fiction Writers Review, and The Quarterly Conversation. He is fiction and hybrid genre editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, and he teaches courses in creative writing and contemporary literature at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.
Rone Shavers
Disciplines:
Literature – poetry
Studios
Barnard
Rone Shavers worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…