Claudia Rankine JOINS THE NYU CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM FACULTY
The NYU Creative Writing Program is thrilled to announce that the singular and brilliant Claudia Rankine will be joining our senior faculty in fall 2021 as a Professor of Creative Writing. A 2016 MacArthur Fellow--and one of the most essential and influential writers of our time--Rankine is an award winning poet, essayist, and playwright currently teaching at Yale. She will be a stellar addition to our acclaimed faculty at NYU, and we look forward to welcoming her to the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House next fall. More details here.
Claudia Rankine is a recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, and the author of six collections including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March of 2020 at The Shed, NYC, and The White Card, and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. She also co-produces a video series, “The Situation,” alongside John Lucas, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). In addition to the MacArthur, her numerous awards and honors include the Forward Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Her most recent book is Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf, 2020). A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Claudia Rankine will join the NYU Creative Writing Program as a tenured Professor in Fall 2021.