Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. Essay collections include They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, published in 2017, and A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, which received the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Poetry collections such as The Crown Ain't Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster sit alongside Go Ahead in the Rain, a book on A Tribe Called Quest that was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. Abdurraqib received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.