Zakiya Dalila Harris spent nearly three years in editorial at Knopf/Doubleday before leaving to write her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, published June 1, 2021 by Atria Books in the US and Bloomsbury Books in the UK. The Other Black Girl will also be published in Germany, Brazil, France, Spain, South Korea, Hungary, Croatia, Israel, Romania, and elsewhere around the globe. Prior to working in publishing, Zakiya received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Guernica and The Rumpus. She lives in Brooklyn.

MATEO ASKARIPOUR’s work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 rising stars to make waves in 2021,” a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. His debut novel BLACK BUCK was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @AskMateo.

Zakiya Dalila Harris on The Other Black Girl with Mateo Askaripour