"Aimee Nezhukumatathil, who uses poetry to write of the wonders of the natural world. She writes about being brown in white America, about being a daughter, a wife, a mother, of being a woman making sense of her own skin."
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Essayists from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesWomen academics from the United StatesWomen from the United StatesAsian Americans
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Roxane Gay in Who Reads Poetry edited by Fred Sasaki and Don Share (2017)
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