Claudia Rankine is the author of five books including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American
Lyric and the bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric . A chancellor of the Academy of American
Poets she is the winner of many prizes including the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award
for Poetry and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship. She is an adjunct professor of English and
African-American Studies at Yale University and has previously taught at Pomona College and
the University of Southern California.
