About the Author
Asale Angel-Ajani is the author of A Country You Can Leave, a New York Times recommended book and Amazon Editors’ Pick for Fiction, and the nonfiction book Strange Trade. Her work has been featured on CNN, in Ms. Magazine, and on NPR. A recipient of support from the Ford, Mellon, and Rockefeller Foundations, she was a Hutchins Family Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and lives in New York City.