Quraysh Ali Lansana

Applied Professor of English, Creative Writing & Media Studies, University of Tulsa

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of over twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature. Lansana is Applied Professor of English/Creative Writing & Media Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he also serves as Director of the African American Studies program and the TU Media Lab. Lansana is Executive Producer of KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma monthly radio program, recipient of a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award and a NAACP Image Award, among others. Lansana is also the recipient of a 2022 Emmy Award, among others, for his roles as host and consultant for the OETA (PBS) documentary film “Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later.” A former faculty member of the Writing Program of the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago and the Drama Division of
The Juilliard School, Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center
for Black Literature and
Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2012.

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