Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is the author of five books

of poetry, including Citizen: An American

Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An

American Lyric. She wrote three plays

including HELP, The White Card, and The

Provenance of Beauty. She also published

several collections of essays, amongst others:

Just Us: An American Conversation.

Rankine is the co-editor of several anthologies

as well, including The Racial Imaginary:

Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind

and in 2016 she founded The Racial Imaginary

Institute (TRII). Among her numerous

awards, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt

National Prize for Poetry, the Poets &

Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships

from the Guggenheim Foundation, as

well as the MacArthur Foundation. As a former

Chancellor of the Academy of American

Poets, she joined the NYU Creative

Writing Program in Fall 2021.

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