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Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Poet, Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, and Guest Editor at The Poetry Foundation.

Charif Shanahan is examining race and sexuality in ways I have not seen.

― Natasha Trethewey, 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Native Guard

Lyrical and unforgiving. . .
A rare kind of poet.

                    —Ilya Kaminsky, Whiting Award–winning author of Deaf Republic