About the Author
Poet Devi S. Laskar found herself on the end of an officer's gun during a raid on her home. Her husband, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, was accused of misusing university property — the case would later be dismissed. This terrifying encounter would become the inspiration for her Crook's Corner Book Prize winner, The Atlas of Reds and Blues. Laskar drew from the experience of having a gun pointed at her face and having the fragments of her life flash before her eyes. Many of these memories influenced by the misogyny, racism and feeling of being invisible felt as a woman of color in America. | 
