Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Saeed Jones was raised in Lewisville, Texas, and holds an MFA from Rutgers University–Newark. His debut collection, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014), won the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award. His memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019) won the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. He is also a recipient of a Whiting Award.
