Steven G. Fullwood is an archivist, writer, and cultural documentarian. He is the co-editor of the new anthology Artists As Writers: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (with Seph Rodney), which features 32 succinct first-person narratives by writers across genres reflecting on the day-to-day realities of writing for a living. He is also the co-director of the Nomadic Archivists Project (with Miranda Mims), a pioneering initiative that partners with individuals, community groups, organizations, and institutions to establish, preserve, and enhance collections that illuminate the global Black experience.
Fullwood helped accession the records of Other Countries at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where he founded what is now known as the In the Life Archive (ITLA). Originally created by Fullwood in 1999 as the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive (BGLA), the project was established to document and preserve cultural materials produced by and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of African descent. The collection was donated to the Schomburg Center in 2004 and was renamed the In the Life Archive around 2013. Today, the ITLA holds materials dating from the mid-1950s to the present, documenting the experiences of Black LGBTQ people of African descent primarily in the United States, with additional materials from London and several African countries.
