b'THE REST OF US STORIES Note from the Former EditorBeingablackwomanwriterisnota shallow place but a rich place to write from,saidthelateToniMorrison 1 . Itdoesntlimitmyimagination;it expands it. During the period that I washttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/27/ghosts-in-the-house 1 privileged to be editor of The Rest of Us Stories, I saw the truth of her words flood myconversationsaboutwritingwith studentsofcolour.Thereisnodearth of stories to be told by Black, Asian and writers of colour, nor of ways to tell them. Thereneverhasbeen.Spacemustbe created, in art and writing, so these stories can emerge in their fullest strength, as narratives of abundance and multiplicity. When we deny young writers of colour their voices, we are choosing to overlook vital celebrations of differenceof ways to survive and bloom in the world that resisttheviolenceofwhitehegemony, andchallengewhatweaccepttobe trueaboutit.Sothepublicationof The Rest of Us is, more than ever, an actofjoyandurgent,radicalhope.Dr. Sharanya Murali8'