Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio.
Along with Patricia Smith and Ravi Shankar, he edited The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, reviewed in the New York Times by Claudia.
Peter was a featured speaker at the National Council of Teachers of English\'s annual convention and runner-up in the NCTE and Penguin Random House Maya Angelou Teacher Award for Poetry.
A founding member of the London Poetry collective Malika\'s Kitchen, he co-founded the London Teenage Poetry Slam and, as a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths-University of London, created the Spoken Word Education Training Programme.
His students can be seen in Louder Than a Bomb and America to Me.
A former Chicago social worker, Peter Kahn has been an English teacher since 1994 and a Spoken Word Educator since 2003 at Oak Park/River Forest High School.
She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Franny has taught creative writing for over ten Years in various contexts, including Williams College, the University of Michigan, Project VOICE, and Inside Out Literary Arts.
A recipient of numerous awards including the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Elgin Award for speculative poetry, she co-hosts the Poetry podcast VS alongside fellow poet Danez Smith.
She is a Kundiman Fellow, a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, and a graduate of the University of Michigan\'s Helen Zell Writers Program.
Franny Choi is the author of two Poetry collections, Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014).
He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
His second collection of poems, A Fortune for Your Disaster, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
His first collection of essays, They Can\'t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a book of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others.
His first full-length Poetry collection, The Crown Ain\'t Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
His Poetry has been published in PEN American, Muzzle, Vinyl, and other journals, and his essays and criticism have been published in The New Yorker, Pitchfork, The New York Times, and Fader.
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio
