Asale Angel-Ajani
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ASALE ANGEL-AJANI is a writer and a professor at the City College of New York. She is the author of two nonfiction books, Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade and the forthcoming Intimate: Essays on Racial Terror. She has held residencies at Millay Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Playa and is an alum of VONA and Tin House. A Country You Can Leave is her first novel.