Abdurraqib, Hanif: - Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio.
Hanif is a graduate of Beechcroft High School..
The book won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize.
In 2021, he released the book A Little Devil In America with Random House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
His second collection of poems, A Fortune For Your Disaster, was released in 2019 by Tin House, and won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize.
The book became a New York Times Bestseller, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
He released Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest with University of Texas press in February 2019.
With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore and he is very sorry.) His first collection of essays, They Can\'t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and The Chicago Tribune, among others.
It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain\'t Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry.
His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals.
Abdurraqib, Hanif: - Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio
