Quraysh Ali Lansana Author & Editor

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of three poetry books including They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, 2004) a children's book, and editor of five anthologies including Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2001). He is director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University, where he is also an assistant professor of English and creative writing. Lansana serves as associate editor for poetry at Black Issues Book Review and earned an MFA in creative writing at New York University.