The New York Times Magazine - 18.08.2019

The New York Times Magazine 95

Anne C. Bailey (Page 98)
is a professor of history at Binghamton University
and the author of ‘‘The Weeping Time:
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in
American History.’’

Mehrsa Baradaran (Pages 32, 35, 36)
is a professor at U.C. Irvine School of
Law and author of ‘‘The Color of Money’’ and
‘‘How the Other Half Banks.’’

Reginald Dwayne Betts (Page 43)
is a contributing writer for the magazine whose
essay about the time he served in prison won
a National Magazine Award. He is the author of
a coming collection of poetry, ‘‘Felon.’’

Matthew Desmond (Page 30)
is a professor of sociology at Princeton University
and a contributing writer for the magazine.
He last wrote a feature about the benefits of a
living wage.

Rita Dove (Page 78)
is a professor of English at the University of
Virginia, a former United States poet laureate
and the magazine’s former poetry editor.
She is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Camille T. Dungy (Page 78)
is the author of four books of poetry, including
‘‘Trophic Cascade,’’ and the memoir-in-essays
‘‘Guidebook to Relative Strangers.’’ Dungy is
currently a professor at Colorado State University
and a 2019 Guggenheim fellow.

Eve L. Ewing (Page 42)
is the author of ‘‘1919,’’ the ‘‘Ironheart’’ series,
‘‘Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and
School Closings on Chicago’s South Side’’ and
‘‘Electric Arches.’’ She is from Chicago.

Yaa Gyasi (Page 68)
was born in Ghana, raised in Huntsville, Ala.,
and lives in Brooklyn. Her first novel,
‘‘Homegoing,’’ won the PEN/Hemingway Award
and the National Book Critics Circle’s John
Leonard Prize.

Lyle Ashton Harris (Page 30)
is an artist who works in photography, collage
and performance. He currently has works in two
group exhibitions at the Guggenheim in New York.

Barry Jenkins (Page 46)

was born and raised in Miami. He is a director

and writer known for his adaptation of James

Baldwin’s ‘‘If Beale Street Could Talk’’ and

‘‘Moonlight,’’ which won the Academy Award

for Best Picture.

Yusef Komunyakaa (Page 29)

is a poet whose books include ‘‘The Emperor of

Water Clocks’’ and ‘‘Neon Vernacular,’’ for which

he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at N.Y.U.

Kiese Laymon (Page 84)

is a professor of English at the University of

Mississippi and the author of ‘‘Long Division,’’

‘‘How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in

America’’ and ‘‘Heavy: An American Memoir.’’

Wadzanai Mhute (Page 86)

is a New York Times community moderator

and writer. She holds a master’s degree

from Columbia University’s Graduate School

of Journalism.

Tiya Miles (Pages 22, 40, 76)

is a professor in the history department at

Harvard and the author, most recently, of

‘‘The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery

and Freedom in the City of the Straits.’’

ZZ Packer (Page 59)

is the author of a story collection, ‘‘Drinking

Coffee Elsewhere.’’ She was a 2005 Guggenheim

fellow and a 2018-19 Hutchins fellow at Harvard.

Darryl Pinckney (Page 59)

is the author of two novels, ‘‘High Cotton’’

and ‘‘Black Deutschland.’’

Clint Smith (Pages 28, 85)

is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University

and the author of the poetry collection ‘‘Counting

Descent,’’ as well as a coming nonfiction book,

‘‘How the Word Is Passed.’’

Jesmyn Ward (Page 47)

is the author of ‘‘Sing, Unburied, Sing,’’ which

won a National Book Award. She was a 2017

MacArthur fellow.

Jacqueline Woodson (Page 69)

is the author of the National Book Award winner

‘‘Brown Girl Dreaming.’’ She serves as the Library

of Congress’s national ambassador for young

people’s literature. Her novel ‘‘Red at the Bone’’

will be published in September.

Contributors
(Continued from Page 11)

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