Interview of Chesya Burke, author and doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Florida

Chesya Burke, doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Florida, describes #BlackGirlMagic and the ways Zora Neale Hurston embodies the phrase. As a writer in the Afrofuturist and horror genres, Burke discusses what it means to be at the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival with other Black speculative writers. In addition, she talks about her work, Let's play white, and her "unwillingness to accept mediocrity." Burke is interviewed by Tiffany Pennamon, English doctoral student at the University of Florida.