Dr. Meta L. Schettler is an associate professor in Africana Studies at Fresno State. Her research interests include African and African American literature, South African politics and the anti-apartheid struggle, postcolonialism, feminism, and writing pedagogy. She has papers published in the International Journal of Africana Studies, Obsidian, Valley Voices, Abafazi, and Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies. She has been writing about African American writers and haiku, especially Sonia Sanchez and Richard Wright, since 2008.
