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.