Christina Sharpe is a writer, professor, and researcher currently serving as the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class at the University of Johannesburg. The New York Times describes her work as “expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow—peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history.”

Her latest book, Ordinary Notes, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. In 2024, Sharpe was a recipient of the Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, one of the richest literature prizes in the world.

Christina Sharpe, "Ordinary Notes"