Read A.T.'s latest essay about the importance of defunding campus police.
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Politics and culture writer.
Pushcart prize nominated poet.
Previously published in:
REPORTING, ESSAYS & OP-EDS
Slate: Defund Campus Police
Slate: For Black Americans, Using Social Media Means Risking PTSD
Slate: Georgia Can Honor Ahmaud Arbery by Repealing Its Horrible Citizen’s Arrest Statute
The Hill: How Cory Booker's Failed Campaign Spurred Progress for Racial Justice
Washington Post: The case for reparations begins with people like my great-great grandparents
VICE: 'Native Son' Proves How Little Has Changed for Black People in America
The Atlantic: Native Son Gets the James Baldwin Edit
Thrillist: How 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Shows the Power of Black Portraiture
Slate: Kamala Harris Is Going to Need a Better Answer for Questions About Her Prosecutorial Record
Slate: A Facebook Executive Moved to London to Protect Her Son From Police Brutality. Then Her Brother Was Tased to Death by Police.
The New Yorker: What Antwon Rose's Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America
The Guardian: Sorry to Bother You, black Americans and the power and peril of code-switching
Complex: The Power of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize Win
Mic: Could this California bill start the next evolution of police reform?
Slate: On Being Black in the White Space of Yale.
Huffington Post: Lynching Didn't Disappear. It Just Evolved.
Quartz: Martin Luther King Jr.'s final, lesser-known campaign is more relevant than ever
Blavity: Why We Vote: A Letter to My Nephew
Huffington Post: A Black Passenger Saved My Flight from an Emergency Landing. Here's Why that Matters
Quartz: The Obamas’ stunning portraits are a testament to the importance of identity politics
Huffington Post: The Grammys’ Relationship With Hip-Hop Is America’s Relationship With Blackness
Huffington Post: A Letter To My Nephew, Born on Election Night
A.T. was recently named a finalist in the Write Bloody book publishing contest and the Gold Line Press chapbook contest.
POETRY
Triquarterly Review: American Math
The Missouri Review: What You Never Had (Poem of the Week selection)
Interim Poetics: arrest the cops, what do you want to be for halloween, mr. wilson said
Southern Humanities Review: Affirmative Action Jackson (Print, Winter 2019)
Prelude Magazine: Hear Ye, Hear Ye (Print, Winter 2018)
Main Street Mag: Hip-Hop, A Still Life (Print, Spring 2018)
Main Street Mag: A Gyspy, Cab (Print, Spring 2018)
Storyscape Journal: Buzzfeed Bible
Radius Literary Magazine: Without Sun (2016 Pushcart Prize nominee)
Blunderbuss Magazine: asbestos
Blunderbuss Magazine: mouthfuls
Juked Journal: A Spade, A Spade
ABOUT ME
A.T. McWilliams is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Slate, Mic, Complex, VICE and elsewhere.
Moreover, A.T.'s poems have (or will soon) appear in Southern Humanities Review, the Missouri Review, Prelude Magazine, Main Street Mag, and elsewhere online. In 2016, A.T. received a nomination for the national Pushcart Prize for poetry. In 2019, A.T. was named a finalist in the Write Bloody book publishing contest.
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