Candice Lyons is the Black Star Assistant Professor in Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she previously served as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Black Studies Dissertation Scholar. Lyons’ 2021 Feminist Studies article “Behind the Scenes: Elizabeth Keckley, Slave Narratives, and the Queer Complexities of Space” is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Studies Graduate Student Award. She is currently completing her first monograph, which stages queer investigations into the types of stories it becomes possible to tell when the archive is approached without the base assumption of cisheteronormativity.