Ricardo Wilson

Ricardo Wilson is the author of An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories and The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness. He is an assistant professor of English at Williams College and the director of Outpost, a residency for creative writers of color from the United States and Latin America. Explore his work at ricardoawilson.com.

On the Semblance of Solid Ground

Neither of us can comfortably bend our minds around the gap between leaving and having been left behind, even for a brave possibility.