Terrance Hayes, author portrait

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. His other poetry collections are So to Speak, How to Be Drawn, Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. He is also the author of To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight, winner of the 2019 Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hayes lives in New York City, where he is a professor of creative writing at New York University.
So to Speak
Watch Your Language
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
How to Be Drawn
Lighthead
Wind in a Box
Hip Logic

Books

So to Speak
Watch Your Language
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
How to Be Drawn
Lighthead
Wind in a Box
Hip Logic

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