Tiana Reid is a writer, scholar, and poet. Her work has been published in or on 4Columns, Art in America, Bookforum, Frieze, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Peach Mag, Poets.org, and elsewhere. She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the English Department at Brown University, where she teaches and conducts research in black studies and feminist theory. She is a former editor at The New Inquiry and Pinko.