This scholar and author’s latest book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August 2024. As a queer Black feminist love evangelist, Gumbs has written four earlier books, including Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, which won the 2022 Whiting Award in Non-Fiction. Gumbs is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry, the National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and a National Humanities Center Fellowship. She is currently working on her next book in honor of June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer. Alexis Pauline Gumbs was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member Tamara Payne. Both authors will appear at BIO’s Telling the Stories of Black Lives Through Biography, scheduled for March 21-22, 2025, in Montgomery, Alabama.