Isiah Lavender, III is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where he researches and teaches courses in African American literature and science fiction. He is author of Race in American Science Fiction (2011) and edited Black and Brown Planets: the Politics of Race in Science Fiction, as well as Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction.
He contributed the essay “Delany Encounters: or, Another Reason Why I Study Race and Racism in Science Fiction” to Stories for Chip: A Literary Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (published 2015).