Kevin Young

Kevin Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Stones , shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 , longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours , winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Jelly Roll: a blues , a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry; Bunk , a New York Times Notable Book, longlisted for the National Book Award, and...See more

Kevin Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Stones , shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 , longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours , winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Jelly Roll: a blues , a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry; Bunk , a New York Times Notable Book, longlisted for the National Book Award, and named on many "best of" lists for 2017; and The Grey Album , winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. The poetry editor of The New Yorker , Young is the editor of nine other volumes, most recently the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Historians, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. He lives and works in Washington, D.C. See less