Saeed Jones’s debut poetry collection Prelude to Bruise was the winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award and a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. The book was also a finalist for 2015 awards from the Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle. Jones’s poetry and essays have appeared in publications like the New York Times, NPR, Guernica, Ebony, and Best American Poetry, among others. Jones won a Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2013 and is BuzzFeed's Executive Editor of Culture.

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Saeed Jones on the Poetry Foundation website

The Rumpus interview with Jones