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Keja Valens
Keja Valens received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2004. She is currently a Professor of English at Salem State University where she teaches and writes on Caribbean literatures, literatures of the Americas, queer theory, and food writing.
She has written Culinary Colonialsim, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence, Home Cooking: Diaspora and Transnational Caribbean Cookbooks, Caribbean Ecopoetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment and Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature.
When she is not teaching or writing, she gardens, cooks, and eats.