Rain Prud’homme-Cranford is a FATastically queer (dis)Abled #UnapologeticallyLouisisanaCreole Interdisciplinary Artist centering dialogues within Louisiana Creole/Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous/post-contact Indigeneity exploring issues of gender, landbase, environmental sustainability/justice, fat/body, and disability/chronic illness. She strives to work in symphony and reciprocity with her Gulf homeland as kin in co-productivity towards projects that are conversations about the art we make, the places we make them on/in/with, and our ecological, communal, and ancestral kin. An Associate Professor of English at University of Louisiana, Lafayette and former tenured Associate Professor of English and International Indigenous Studies at University of Calgary, her most recent books include the co-edited Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community (eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Darryl Barthé, and Andrew Jolivétte UWashington Press 2022) and her second poetry collection Miscegenation Round Dance: Poémes Historiques (Mongrel Empire Press 2021). Rain is currently working on various critical-creative projects with Carolyn Dunn, Maaliyah Papillion, and Jean-Luc Pierite. Rain is also the Executive Editor, Publisher, and “Book Doula” of That Painted Horse Press, a borderless non-profit p.o.d. publishing house. Rain will be working on edits of her forthcoming monograph Gumbo Stories: Quantum Relation-Making Rhetorics in the Creole South and creating poems-music-art for her third poetry book, Epidermal Journal, a multimodal collection exploring fatness, health/chronic pain, land memory, and homecoming through cycles of grief and healing. 

Portrait by Patrick “Koubár” Wayne