Danez Smith is the author of four poetry collections, including Bluff (forthcoming 2024), Homie (2020), and Don’t Call Us Dead (2017), all from Graywolf Press. Their poetry and prose have been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, *AGNI, *GQ, The Best American Poetry, and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Smith’s work has received the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and has been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Former cohost of the Webby-nominated podcast VS (versus) and a member of the Dark Noise Collective, they live in Minneapolis near their people. (updated 4/2023)