I’m the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, as well as the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. My debut poetry collection was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and awards from Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle in 2015. My most recent collection ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.
I co-host VIBE CHECK, a weekly news and culture podcast, with my friends Zach Stafford and Sam Sanders. And I’m currently an artist in residence at Harvard Medical School. And I’m working on three books at once.
