Claudia Rankine is the author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2004), Plot (Grove Press, 2001), The End of the Alphabet (Grove Press, 1998), and NOTHING IN NATURE IS PRIVATE (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1994). She is co-editor, with Juliana Spahr, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).