Author of Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a finalist for the National Book Award, Danez Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Their debut, [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award. A third collection, Homie (Graywolf, 2020), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A founding member of the Dark Noise Collective, Smith has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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