The first National Youth Poet Laureate, named in 2017, Amanda Gorman delivered The Hill We Climb at the inauguration of President Biden on January 20, 2021, becoming the youngest inaugural poet in United States history. A cum laude graduate of Harvard University in sociology, she saw both The Hill We Climb (Viking, 2021) and Call Us What We Carry (Viking, 2021) debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. She was born in Los Angeles, California, and was the first poet to perform at the Super Bowl.
