The graduate program in creative writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Camille Rankine as its new Assistant Director.

Rankine is the author of Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, she was featured as an emerging poet in the fall 2010 issue of American Poet and the April 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

Camille Rankine received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She serves on the Brooklyn Literary Council, acts as Co-Chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival Poetry Committee, and has worked for the past three years at the Cave Canem Foundation, most recently as the Manager of External Relations & National Programs.

Please join us in welcoming Camille Rankine to the graduate creative writing program at Manhattanville College.