Myronn Hardy is the author of two volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, both published by New Issues/Western Michigan University Press. His poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, FIELD, Indiana Review, Versal (Amsterdam), Rattle, Callaloo, and elsewhere. He is currently completing his first novel. He lives in New York City and Morocco.