Terrance Hayes's most recent of three collections is Wind in a Box. His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, three Best American Poetry selections, and an NEA Fellowship. His poems have appeared in a range of journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family.