Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and earned a BA from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His earlier collections include Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor at New York University.
