Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric . Her work has appeared recently in the Guardian , the New York Times Book Review , the New York Times Magazine , and the Washington Post . She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor of Poets & Writers . She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Rankine is the Frederick...See more

Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric . Her work has appeared recently in the Guardian , the New York Times Book Review , the New York Times Magazine , and the Washington Post . She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor of Poets & Writers . She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Rankine is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. See less