A poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, Hanif Abdurraqib received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021. His debut collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry, 2016), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His second collection, A Fortune for Your Disaster (Tin House, 2019), won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the essay collection They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio, 2017) and the music study Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (University of Texas Press, 2019), a finalist for the Kirkus Prize.
