Geoff Wisner is an author, editor, and book reviewer with a focus on Africa, the Caribbean, and environmental issues. His work appears in the Christian Science Monitor, The Quarterly Conversation, and Warscapes. He is the author of A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa and the upcoming anthology African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies. He blogs about African literature in translation at Words Without Borders.