Gregory Phipps is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Iceland and the author of three academic books: Dialectics of the Big Bang and the Absolute Existence of the Multiverse (University of Alberta Press, forthcoming in 2024), Narratives of African American Women’s Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has also published over 25 articles. His fiction includes short stories that have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Janus Head, and The Loose Canon, as well as two novels, Bákn (2020) and Year of the Puffin (2023). He studied and worked previously at McGill University as a PhD Candidate and Lecturer and at the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has interests in American literature, pragmatism, the Harlem Renaissance, continental philosophy (especially Hegel), intersectionality, cosmology, democracy, creative writing, and a variety of other topics.