Isaiah Frost Rivera

Isaiah Frost Rivera (He/They) is a third-year PhD student in the African and African Diaspora Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. They hold a bachelor’s from CUNY Brooklyn College in English with a double minor in LGBTQ Studies and Puerto Rican & Latino Studies. They also hold a master’s in Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Studies from Columbia University, as well as a master’s in English from Lehigh University. His research interests include horror media, black queer grief, and Afrodiasporic self-sovereignty in the digital age. Isaiah’s writings have been featured in Lolwe , Horror Homeroom , and Speculative Nonfiction. His poem “The Commuters” won first prize in the 2018-2019 CUNY Labor Arts “Making Work Visible” contest. To read more of their work, visit Isaiah’s WordPress blog The Poetic Xenolith , where he writes critical essays about horror media.