Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is the author of eight books, including Triage; Just Us:An American Conversation (Graywolf Press, 2026); Citizen: An American Lyric (2014); and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004), also from Graywolf Press (a longtime Lannan grantee). She has also written three plays, including HELP, and created numerous video collaborations. In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), a multidisciplinary platform engaging with art and scholarship to examine race's role and impact in our lives. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and 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, Rankine teaches in the NYU Creative Writing Program.