Derrick Austin
Derrick Austin is the author of Tenderness (BOA, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and Golden Poppy Award nominee, and Trouble the Water (BOA, 2016) selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr, Poetry Prize. His debut collection was honored as a finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the 2017 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the 2017 Norma Faber First Book Award. A chapbook, Black Sand (Foundlings Press, 2022), is forthcoming.
His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Best American Poetry 2015, Black Nerd Problems, Gulf Coast, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, The Nation, New England Review, Tin House, and Tupelo Quarterly. He has received fellowships from the University of Michigan, Cave Canem, The University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University. He lives in Oakland, CA.
For more information about Derrick Austin, visit https://derricklynnaustin.wixsite.com/authorpage or follow him on Twitter @ParadiseLAust.
