Editorial Advisory Board
Dream Hampton
Dream Hampton is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer from Detroit. Her work includes the 2019 Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which she executive produced, and the 2012 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which she co-executive produced. She co-wrote Jay-Z’s 2010 memoir, Decoded. In 2019, she was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential People. Hampton’s work provides a platform for issues related to racial and gender justice.
Cornelius Harris
Detroit activist and impresario Cornelius Harris is the founder of Alter Ego Management and the label manager of Underground Resistance (UR), the legendary techno collective from Detroit. He has produced events in the city, across the country, and overseas, spotlighting artists from Detroit. With his support, the artists of UR have since 1990 promoted a fiercely independent, anti-corporate ethos that has transformed the music industry.
W. Kim Heron
With three decades of experience in journalism and broadcasting, W. Kim Heron’s career has earned him a place in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. In addition to working as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press and as editor-in-chief at Detroit’s alternative weekly newspaper, Metro Times, he was the longtime host of a beloved jazz and international music program on WDET-FM Detroit Public Radio. Heron is the senior communications officer at The Kresge Foundation, where he provides strategic communications support to the foundation's Detroit Program.
George Tysh
For more than 50 years, poet George Tysh has combined innovative writing with community engagement on grass-roots and institutional levels. His work also reflects a keen interest in music, visual culture, and world literature. Tysh’s numerous volumes of poetry, including The Slip (2015), The Imperfect (2010), and Dream Sites: A Visual Essay (1998), have been praised for combining “rigor, artifice, and intuition,” in the words of Brooklyn Rail reviewer Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Tysh has also collaborated with the conceptual artists Sarkis and Christian Boltanski. He co-edited the project In Camera with his wife, Chris, and Blue Pig with David Ball, and has served as arts editor for Detroit’s Metro Times newspaper. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1980 to 1991 he directed LINES: New Writing at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Tyrone Williams [2020–2024]
Former Detroiter Tyrone Williams taught literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the author of several chapbooks and six books of poetry: c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project of the Century (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), Howell (2011), and As Iz (2018). A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. He and Jeanne Heuving edited the anthology, Inciting Poetics (2019).
Trinosophes Projects Board of Directors
President and Treasurer
Meredith Loomis Quinlan is a national activist and organizer currently serving as the Economic Justice Campaign Manager for Community Change, a DC-based office of public policy “working to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.”
Secretary
Mentored by trumpeter and Tribe Records co-founder Marcus Belgrave, Marcus Elliot is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit.
First Mate
Bradley Hales is the internationally-recognized proprietor of Peoples Records and founder of the Michigan Audio Heritage Society (MAHS) Museum, archiving and preserving audio culture and the legacy of the region.
Dream Hampton
Dream Hampton is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer from Detroit. Her work includes the 2019 Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which she executive produced, and the 2012 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which she co-executive produced. She co-wrote Jay-Z’s 2010 memoir, Decoded. In 2019, she was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential People. Hampton’s work provides a platform for issues related to racial and gender justice.
Cornelius Harris
Detroit activist and impresario Cornelius Harris is the founder of Alter Ego Management and the label manager of Underground Resistance (UR), the legendary techno collective from Detroit. He has produced events in the city, across the country, and overseas, spotlighting artists from Detroit. With his support, the artists of UR have since 1990 promoted a fiercely independent, anti-corporate ethos that has transformed the music industry.
W. Kim Heron
With three decades of experience in journalism and broadcasting, W. Kim Heron’s career has earned him a place in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. In addition to working as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press and as editor-in-chief at Detroit’s alternative weekly newspaper, Metro Times, he was the longtime host of a beloved jazz and international music program on WDET-FM Detroit Public Radio. Heron is the senior communications officer at The Kresge Foundation, where he provides strategic communications support to the foundation's Detroit Program.
Chris Tysh
Poet and playwright Chris Tysh is the author of twelve books, the latest of which is 26 Tears, published in 2022. She holds fellowships from The National Endowment of the Arts and the Kresge Foundation. She teaches at Wayne State University. Tysh served as Three Fold’s founding poetry editor from 2020–2025, publishing more than 80 voices in contemporary poetry.
George Tysh
For more than 50 years, poet George Tysh has combined innovative writing with community engagement on grass-roots and institutional levels. His work also reflects a keen interest in music, visual culture, and world literature. Tysh’s numerous volumes of poetry, including The Slip (2015), The Imperfect (2010), and Dream Sites: A Visual Essay (1998), have been praised for combining “rigor, artifice, and intuition,” in the words of Brooklyn Rail reviewer Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Tysh has also collaborated with the conceptual artists Sarkis and Christian Boltanski. He co-edited the project In Camera with his wife, Chris, and Blue Pig with David Ball, and has served as arts editor for Detroit’s Metro Times newspaper. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1980 to 1991 he directed LINES: New Writing at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Tyrone Williams [2020–2024]
Former Detroiter Tyrone Williams taught literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the author of several chapbooks and six books of poetry: c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project of the Century (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), Howell (2011), and As Iz (2018). A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. He and Jeanne Heuving edited the anthology, Inciting Poetics (2019).
Trinosophes Projects Board of Directors
President and Treasurer
Meredith Loomis Quinlan is a national activist and organizer currently serving as the Economic Justice Campaign Manager for Community Change, a DC-based office of public policy “working to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.”
Secretary
Mentored by trumpeter and Tribe Records co-founder Marcus Belgrave, Marcus Elliot is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit.
First Mate
Bradley Hales is the internationally-recognized proprietor of Peoples Records and founder of the Michigan Audio Heritage Society (MAHS) Museum, archiving and preserving audio culture and the legacy of the region.