Claudia Rankine: podcast appearances and interviews

Claudia Rankine, born on September 4, 1963, is a Jamaican-American poet, essayist, playwright, and editor of several anthologies. She has authored five volumes of poetry, two plays, and various essays. Her notable work, Citizen: An American Lyric, received numerous awards including the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Award, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and several others. It was also a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize, and became the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. Rankine has received a range of accolades throughout her career, such as the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2014, the Jackson Poetry Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award in the same year. She was awarded the Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement in 2005 and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2013. Additionally, she is a 2016 United States Artist Zell Fellow, a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rankine has held academic positions at institutions including Pomona College and Yale University, where she was the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. In 2021, she joined the New York University Creative Writing Program as a professor.