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Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black author from Chicago. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Callaloo, and the Watering Hole. Julian is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the winner of the 2019 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle.

His writing has been published in New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and POETRY, and anthologized in Black Boy Joy (which debuted at #1 on the NYT Best Seller list), Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, and Furious Flower. Julian has essays in The Atlantic, Vibe Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books and other venues. They hold an MFA in poetry from University of Mississippi.

Julian is the author of five books across three genres. For adults Refuse (Pitt, 2018), wi ...more

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	Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora by Saraciea J. Fennell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Cristina Arreola (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 2,471 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood by Kwame Mbalia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), B.B. Alston (Goodreads Author), Dean Atta (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa (Pilar Ramirez #1) 3.78 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shook 4.30 avg rating — 345 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit 3.93 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refuse (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.29 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pilar Ramirez and the Curse of San Zenon (Pilar Ramirez #2) 3.82 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chainbreakers 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin (Editor), Lauren K. Alleyne (Editor), Rita Dove (Foreword) 4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hybrid Working and AI: The Impact on Organizational Development by Julian Randall (Editor), Bernard Burnes (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...because sometimes we are from where we were least dead and not where we were born.”
― Julian Randall, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

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“Invisibility can be suffocating. Invisibility can be your only refuge. Like every refuge, invisibility can be taken away. The consequence of being seen is that you're seen.”
― Julian Randall, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

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