Jabari Asim Biography

Jabari Asim is an author poet playwright associate professor of writing literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts and since August 2007 has been the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis magazine a journal of politics ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910.
Asim was chosen by the National Book Foundation to serve on the nonfiction panel for the 2013 National Book Awards. Harold Augenbraum executive director of the foundation lauded Asim’s ability to approach difficult topics with humility.
In April 2009 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Asim a fellowship in nonfiction one of 180 fellowships awarded to artists scientists and scholars in 2009 selected from a group of almost 3000 applicants.
From 2008 to 2010 Asim was Scholar-in-Residence in African-American Studies and in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Asim spent eleven years (1996–2007) at The Washington Post as deputy editor of the book review section children's book editor poetry editor and editor of the Washington Post′s Education Review. For three years he also wrote a Washington Post Writers Group syndicated column on political and social issues for the Post. Asim is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle.

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