Dominique Haensell (*1986) is the current editor-in-chief of Missy Magazine, a German language magazine for pop, politics and feminism. Born in the UK and raised in Germany, she studied English Philology, Comp Lit and Critical Theory at the FU Berlin and King’s College London. In 2019, she completed a PhD at the JFKI’s Graduate School of North American Studies. In 2020, she received an Emma Goldmann Snowball Award for her new project, a hybrid memoir about Afro-German identity, German colonialism and her family’s relationship to German colonial Africa. Her monograph ”Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism” is forthcoming with De Gruyter. She lives in Berlin.