Dike Okoro teaches African and African American literature at Olive Harvey College, Chicago. He is also a Sam Walton Fellow attached to the same institution. His work has appeared in Chimurenga, Drum Voices Revue, Black Issues, Quarterly Black Review, Sentinel Online, and major poetry anthologies in the US. His book, Dance of the Heart, is forthcoming (Malthouse 2007). He is completing a PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.