Kevin Young
Biographie
Kevin Young is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose, including Stones, a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and The Grey Album, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. His recent picture book, Emile and the Field, was named one of the best children’s books of the year by The New York Times. The poetry editor of The New Yorker, Young also hosts the Poetry Podcast and has edited eleven anthologies, including African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song and A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925–2025.
