Hanif Abdurraqib
Poet, essayist and cultural critic
Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet and cultural critic who comes from Columbus, Ohio. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.
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American Born 1983 in Columbus, United States
About Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib was born in 1983 and writes poetry, essays and music criticism. His pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Pitchfork and The FADER. His first full poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, came out in 2016. A year later he published his first book of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. Go Ahead in the Rain, his 2019 book about A Tribe Called Quest, was a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the National Book Award. A Fortune for Your Disaster, a poetry collection from 2019, won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize. His 2021 essay collection A Little Devil in America earned him the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.