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 six books of poetry, including Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008), winner of the Southern Independent Bookseller's Award in poetry, and Jelly Roll: A Blues (Knopf, 2003), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. Young's anthology The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing appeared in March 2010 from Bloomsbury. Recently named the United States Artists James Baldwin Fellow, Young is Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.
