Camille Rankine is the author of Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press, and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. She was the winner of the Discovery Poetry Contest, and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and MacDowell. She serves as cochair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, and is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.