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Former EdTech Startup COO

& Google Program Lead

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Politics, Technology and Culture Writer

and Pushcart Prize Nominated Poet

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REPORTING, ESSAYS & OP-EDS

Slate: For Black Americans, Using Social Media Means Risking PTSD

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Slate: Georgia Can Honor Ahmaud Arbery by Repealing Its Horrible Citizen’s Arrest Statute

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The Hill: How Cory Booker's Failed Campaign Spurred Progress for Racial Justice 

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Washington Post: The case for reparations begins with people like my great-great grandparents

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VICE: 'Native Son' Proves How Little Has Changed for Black People in America

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The Atlantic: Native Son Gets the James Baldwin Edit

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Thrillist: How 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Shows the Power of Black Portraiture

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Slate: Kamala Harris Is Going to Need a Better Answer for Questions About Her Prosecutorial Record

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Slate: A Facebook Executive Moved to London to Protect Her Son From Police Brutality. Then Her Brother Was Tased to Death by Police.

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The New Yorker: What Antwon Rose's Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America

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The Guardian: Sorry to Bother You, black Americans and the power and peril of code-switching​

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Complex: The Power of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize Win

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Mic: Could this California bill start the next evolution of police reform?

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Slate: On Being Black in the White Space of Yale.

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Huffington Post: Lynching Didn't Disappear. It Just Evolved. 

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Quartz: Martin Luther King Jr.'s final, lesser-known campaign is more relevant than ever

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Blavity: Why We Vote: A Letter to My Nephew 

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Huffington Post: A Black Passenger Saved My Flight from an Emergency Landing. Here's Why that Matters

 

Quartz: The Obamas’ stunning portraits are a testament to the importance of identity politics

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Huffington Post: The Grammys’ Relationship With Hip-Hop Is America’s Relationship With Blackness

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Huffington Post: A Letter To My Nephew, Born on Election Night

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Huffington Post: The Dangers of Resisting

Essay & Op-Eds
A.T. was recently named a finalist in the Write Bloody book publishing contest and the Gold Line Press chapbook contest.

POETRY

Triquarterly Review: American Math

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The Missouri Review: What You Never Had (Poem of the Week selection) 

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Interim Poetics: arrest the cops, what do you want to be for halloween, mr. wilson said

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Southern Humanities Review: Affirmative Action Jackson (Print, Winter 2019)

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Prelude Magazine: Hear Ye, Hear Ye (Print, Winter 2018)

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Main Street Mag: Hip-Hop, A Still Life (Print, Spring 2018)

 

Main Street Mag: A Gyspy, Cab (Print, Spring 2018)

 

Storyscape Journal: Buzzfeed Bible

 

Radius Literary Magazine: Without Sun (2016 Pushcart Prize nominee)

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Blunderbuss Magazine: asbestos

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Blunderbuss Magazine: mouthfuls

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Gravel Magazine: Off Beat

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Juked Journal: A Spade, A Spade  

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Mobius Magazine: Stutter Song

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Rogue Agent Journal: This is How You Left Us

Poetry

ABOUT ME

A.T. McWilliams is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Slate, Mic, Complex, VICE and elsewhere. 

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Moreover, A.T.'s poems have (or will soon) appear in Southern Humanities Review, the Missouri Review, Prelude Magazine, Main Street Mag, and elsewhere online. In 2016, A.T. received a nomination for the national Pushcart Prize for poetry. In 2019, A.T. was named a finalist in the Write Bloody book publishing contest.

GET IN TOUCH

If you're looking for a freelance writer,  interested in reviewing A.T.'s poetry manuscript or setting up time to chat, please reach out below.

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