Terrance Hayes is the author ofLighthead,winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books areWind In a Box, Hip Logic, andMuscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
“Both Hayes’s idioms and his interests show a marvelous range and flexibility . . . it seems at times as if he can assimilate anything into his poems.” – The Georgia Review “A distinctively American voice to take on the new complexities of race and the old hardships incumbent in being human. Hayes will disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” – Mary Karr