Once the second-largest city in Indiana, and home to the world's largest steel mill, Gary has suffered and shrunk greatly in the postindustrial global economy. Large swathes of its land are urban prairie, and a recent survey found a quarter of Gary's built environment is in a dilapidated or dangerous condition. But Gary is also a center of Black culture and political power, it is home to the Indiana Dunes National Park and globally rare ecosystems. Union, community organizing, and environmental justice struggles based in Gary have profoundly shaped social and political life in the United States. It is the setting for everyday joys and tragedies, and very much alive. Edited by Gary native Samuel Love, The Gary Anthology complicates standard narratives about steel, violence, race, and urban decay. Collected here are the voices of not only the essayist, poet, and journalist but also the graffiti writer, the minister, the activist, the singer, the organizer, and of course, the steel worker. The very people who are themselves hard at work reshaping the city from the bottom up.