He is series editor and wrote the introduction and forward for Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition. He is the editor of the anthology African American Poetry 1770–2020: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America October 2020). Young is the editor of nine other volumes, including The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965- 2010(BOA Editions, 2012) and The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink(Bloomsbury, 2012). Young’s previous nonfiction book, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness(Graywolf Press, 2012), won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award it was also a New York Times Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Young’s second nonfiction book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News(Graywolf Press, 2017), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was named a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” selection, and a “Best Book of 2017″ by NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian, Vogue, the Atlantic, Nylon, BuzzFeed, and Electric Literature. His new children's book is titled Emile and the Field (RHCB/Make Me a World, March 15, 2022), illustrated by Chioma Ebinama. His newest book of poetry, Stones, was one of Library Journal's Top Ten poetry titles of 2021, and was shortlisted for the T.S. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues(Knopf, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Brown(Knopf, 2018), featured on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015(Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award and Book of Hours(Knopf, 2014), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. He was the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 2008 – 2016, and served as Curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library-a 75,000-volume collection of rare and modern poetry housed at Emory University – from 2005 – 2016. Kevin Young is the poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast, and is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation.

Stones by Kevin Young