Kevin Young is the author of three previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America's
John Berryman: Selected Poems, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthology
Blues Poems, and
Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers. His most recent book,
Jelly Roll: A Blues, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. A recent Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Young is currently Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University.
Kevin Young's Jelly Roll is available in Knopf paperback.