What is Claudia Rankine?
'''Claudia Rankine''' (born in 1963 in [[Kingston, Jamaica]]) is a [[Jamaica]]n poet and experimental [[playwright]]. Her work deals with racism, discrimination, and social justice.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-13|title=Claudia Rankine: “There is no justice, there’s ‘just us’”|url=https://theaggie.org/2020/11/13/claudia-rankine-there-is-no-justice-theres-just-us/|access-date=2020-11-14|website=The Aggie|language=en-US}}</ref> She is the author of ''Just Us: An American Conversation,'' ''Citizen: An American Lyric'', and ''Nothing in Nature is Private''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=About Claudia Rankine {{!}} Academy of American Poets |url=https://poets.org/poet/claudia-rankine |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=poets.org}}</ref> == Honors == Rankine has won fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the [[National Endowment for the Arts]], the Lannan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2013, she was elected as a chancellor of the [[Academy of American Poets]]. In 2014 she received a Lannan Literary Award.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Foundation|first=Poetry|date=2020-11-13|title=Claudia Rankine|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/claudia-rankine|access-date=2020-11-14|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}}</ref> == Related pages == * [[American poetry]] * [[Caribbean poetry]] *[[List of poets from North America]] **[[List of poets from the United States]] == References == <references /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Rankine, Claudia}} [[Category:1963 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Jamaican poets]]