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Mateo Askaripour

Mateo Askaripour
Mateo Askaripour’s work aims to help people of color, especially those in traditionally white environments, know they, too, deserve to thrive in those spaces. He was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, and Black Buck is his debut novel. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @AskMateo.


In Favor of Speed:
Write Fast, Fix Later

Mateo Askaripour Offers a Method of Getting the Work Done
January 14, 2021  By Mateo Askaripour
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Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All

Mateo Askaripour on the "Father of African Cinema"
May 2, 2019  By Mateo Askaripour
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Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

"The metaphor reveals a world behind the world of things."
April 10, 2019  By Mateo Askaripour
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Why We Write About Our Oldest Wounds

Mateo Askaripour on Racism, Writing, and the Places We Leave Behind
February 8, 2019  By Mateo Askaripour
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Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

How Some Black Writers Live, and Some Die
January 3, 2019  By Mateo Askaripour
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