13 Facts About Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies.

Claudia Rankine is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays.

Claudia Rankine is a 2016 United States Artist Zell Fellow and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.

Claudia Rankine has taught at Pomona College and was the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.

Claudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and later immigrated to the United States during childhood.

In 2003, Claudia Rankine started work as an associate professor at the University of Georgia.

Claudia Rankine taught English at Pomona College from 2006 to 2015.

Claudia Rankine's work has appeared in many journals, including Harper's, GRANTA, the Kenyon Review, and the Lana Turner Journal, and she is a contributor to New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

Claudia Rankine's play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue, commissioned by The Foundry Theatre, was a 2011 Distinguished Development Project Selection in the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage.

Claudia Rankine writes that Citizen takes a new angle on and recognizes Lowell's whiteness, a subject of interest for Rankine.

In 2017, Claudia Rankine collaborated with choreographer and performer Will Rawls to generate the work What Remains.

The Racial Imaginary Institute is an interdisciplinary collective established in 2017 by Claudia Rankine using funds from her 2016 MacArthur Grant.

Claudia Rankine envisions the organization as occupying a physical space in Manhattan; until that is possible, the institute is roving.