Kevin Young

Kevin Young is the author of a previous book of nonfiction, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, which won the PEN Open Book Award, was recognized as a New York Times Notable Book, and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, including Brown and Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015. Young is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor for the New Yorker.