There’s nothing like the grounding comfort of a trustworthy nonfiction voice—a voice that conveys authority, intimacy, vulnerability, and a profound, curiosity-inspiring depth of knowledge.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, assistant professor in the Residential College and the English department’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, writes essays on art, playing with puppets in the wilds of Vermont, a police ride-along in Detroit, her photographer father, and discovery, in her lauded collection Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit (Graywolf Press, 2024).
