Brian Russell Roberts is Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He has won the Darwin T. Turner Award for best article of the year in African American Review, and his books include Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era (University of Virginia Press, 2013), Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference (co-edited and co-translated; Duke University Press, 2016), Archipelagic American Studies (co-edited; Duke University Press, 2017), and Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (Duke University Press, 2021). In creative writing, he has been Featured Poet in the UK journal Staple, while his work in translating short fiction (Oceans of Longing, by Sitor Situmorang) has been recognized with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Staff Picks Award. “Time’s Medusa” is part of a novel in stories and is his debut in original fiction.
