Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an American writer who was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film, and pop culture. She studied English literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816564662 The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White]'' was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her essay collection, ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1014023623 Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit]'', was published in 2017 and chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest. Her 2021 essay, ''Borealis'', received the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Provided by Wikipedia