Stephanie Andrea Allen, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar, creative writer, small press publisher and assistant professor of gender studies at Indiana University. Her research centers Black lesbian cultural histories and Black feminisms through literature, film and other print and visual media. Her most recent project “We Must Document Ourselves Now:” Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation," (Ohio State University Press, 2026), examines the essential, but oft-ignored importance of Black lesbian literature and visual media in queer literary and film histories. Her scholarly writing can be found in Women, Gender and Families of Color; Archeion: Journal of Queer Archives; Feminists Talk Whiteness; Sinister Wisdom; and in other academic spaces.

 

Allen is also publisher and editor-in-chief at BLF Press. Her creative work can be found in various online and print publications, including Mom Egg Review, Star*Line, Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction Magazine and Sinister Wisdom, and in her two short story collections, "A Failure to Communicate" and "How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions."