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Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an essayist and multimedia artist. She is the author of two essay collections, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit. The latter was nominated for an Iowa Essay Prize, and won the 1913 Press Open Prose book contest as well as the CLMP Firecracker award for nonfiction. Her book-length essay, Borealis, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. Her essays have been widely anthologized, and appear in publications such as the Offing, Guernica, the Paris Review, and Obsidian. She is the Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan Writers’ Program.