The owner of the recently opened Harriett’s Bookshop, which specializes in the work of Black and women authors, talks about the arts as a tool for social change and her vision for the store.

“I’ve been writing it for eighteen years. More than half my life.” —Fariha Róisín, author of Like a Bird

The author of RENDANG consults poems by Monica Youn, Meiling Jin, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge to analyze how racial markers function in poetry. 

The author describes creating a community-driven workshop where students are not asked to check their politics and identities at the door, and offers a series of questions for instructors to ask themselves before leading a class.

The critic on combining book reviews and cultural criticism, exposing readers to challenging views, and reading multiple books at once.

The #PublishingPaidMe hashtag highlights anti-Black bias within the publishing industry and opens up the conversation about how editors determine book advances. 

The poet and essayist on her approach to publishing in literary journals and her path to writing her debut poetry collection, Un-American.