biography
"Highly entertaining, often dazzling, and, as book reviewers like to say—but rarely about contemporary poetry—compulsively readable."
— The New York Times Book Review
"In just ten years since his debut, Young has become a leading poet of his generation."
— Publishers Weekly
Kevin Young is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebellion (Knopf, 2011). His Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize.
He is the editor of six volumes, including 2010's The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing and Best American Poetry 2011. Young's book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in March 2012.
Young is the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.
