Katherine McKittrick is professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University. She is author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minnesota, 2006 and 2026) and Dear Science and Other Stories; editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis; and coeditor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.Brittany Meché is assistant professor of environmental studies at Williams College. Her writing has been published in many journals, including Political Geography, Society and Space, and Antipode.Camilla Hawthorne is associate professor of sociology and critical race and ethnic studies at University of California Santa Cruz. She is author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean and coeditor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship and The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity.

"Katherine McKittrick is a kind of intellectual ecologist. Every piece of writing is verdant and valuable, timely and timeless, bountiful and brilliant. And when it comes to brilliance, imagination, and interdisciplinarity, she really has no peer. As long as we have a planet, Heartbreak and Other Geographies will always be essential reading."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"Urgent and exciting, with the potential to further rupture disciplinarity, Heartbreak and Other Geographies bridges seemingly disparate fields, unveiling their connections. An invitation to think and write relationally with black geographic thought and black feminisms at the center, this book offers a rare opportunity to honor Katherine McKittrick's legacy."—LaToya Eaves, coeditor of Activist Feminist Geographies