Aliyah R. Khan is a professor of Caribbean and Muslim literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, but her navel string is buried where she was born and spent her childhood, in Georgetown, Guyana. She holds a creative writing MFA from Hunter College of the City University of New York, and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her nonfiction academic book on enslaved African Muslims, indentured Indian Muslims, and Islam in the Caribbean, Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean, was published by Rutgers University Press and the University of the West Indies Press in 2020. She is always thinking of yesterday’s night sky above the Caribbean and today’s Atlantic politricks, in hopes of a decolonized tomorrow.