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Hanif Abdurraqib, poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio

Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow.

His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), was named a book of the year by Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest (2019) was a New York Times Bestseller, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was long listed for the National Book Award.

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