Rio Cortez
Poet and NYT bestselling author of The ABCs of Black History and Golden Ax (out 8/30!)
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Golden Ax Longlisted for Pen America Open Book Award
Rio profiled in The Salt Lake Tribune
Golden Ax Longlisted for the National Book Award
Adore Adorn x Golden Ax Collab
Rio Cortez on Afropioneerism, Lit Hub
Black Frasier Crane (The New Yorker)
Covered Wagon As Spaceship & Eden, Adroit Journal
Ars Poetica With Mother & Dogs (The Atlantic)
Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film (Poem-a-Day)
I Learn to Shoot a Bow (The Atlantic)
Starred PW Review for GOLDEN AX
NYT Review, ABCS OF BLACK HISTORY