Mateo Askaripour

MATEO ASKARIPOUR'S work aims to empower people of colour 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 has been featured in The New York Times, Guardian, BBC Radio 4, and elsewhere. His debut novel Black Buck was an instant New York Times bestseller. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter at @AskMateo.