Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Librettist

Biography

Claudia Rankine is the author of five poetry collections, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, three plays, including HELP, premiered in March 2020 at The Shed in New York, and The White Card, premiered in February 2018 at ArtsEmerson / American Repertory Theater and published by Graywolf Press in 2019, as well as numerous video collaborations. Her essay collection Just Us: An American Conversation was published by Graywolf Press in 2020, and her latest project, TRIAGE, will be published by the same press in 2026. She is also co-editor of several anthologies, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.

In 2016, she co-founded the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her many awards and honors, Claudia Rankine has received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she joined the creative writing program at New York University in the fall of 2021.

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