Rita Banerjee is a poet and nonfiction writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the George Polk School of Communications at LIU Brooklyn. She is the author of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing, Echo in Four Beats, the novella “A Night with Kali” in Approaching Footsteps, and Cracklers at Night. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her MFA from the University of Washington, and her work appears in Hunger Mountain, Isele, Nat. Brut., Poets & Writers, Academy of American Poets, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vermont Public Radio, and elsewhere. She is a co-writer of Burning Down the Louvre (2022), a documentary film about race, intimacy, and tribalism in the United States and in France, and she is currently working on a memoir and manifesto about how young women of color keep their cool against social, sexual, and economic pressure. Her work is represented by Folio Literary Management. Check out her work at ritabanerjee.com or on Twitter @Rita_Banerjee!