Terrance Hayes

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Terrance Hayes (b. November 18, 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American poet.

Hayes won the 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book; his second won the 2001 National Poetry Series Open Competition. From 1999-2001 he was an assistant professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. Since 2001 he has been on the creative writing faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a full professor.

He graduated in 1994 from Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, where he played basketball and majored in painting. From 1994 to 1997 he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh writing program.

He is married to poet Yona Harvey and they have two children.

[edit] Works

• Muscular Music, poetry (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1999)
• Hip Logic, poetry (New York: Viking Penguin, 2002)
• Wind In a Box, poetry (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006)

[edit] External links

• Three Poems in Guernica Magazine
• Bill O'Driscoll (2006). City Paper Profile of Terrance Hayes. Retrieved April 28, 2006.

[edit] Sources

Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000144394.