I'm not going to allow death to accomplish it's goal before I've accomplished mine.

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Black Activist. Data Scientist & Policy Analyst. Campaign Zero.

Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.

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Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University.

Larissa Pham is a writer in Brooklyn.