**CLAUDIA RANKINE *is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric *, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Isem...

**CLAUDIA RANKINE *is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric *, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.