Kirsten Hemmy

Kirsten Hemmy was a Fulbright Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year, studying border and migration narratives in West Africa. She is currently teaching at the Centre d’Etudes Avancees et de Researche En Management de Projet, Programme, et Portefeuille, Dakar.  When she is not in Senegal, Hemmy is an Associate Professor of Literature at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of The Atrocity of Water, published by Press 53 in 2010.