Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib (formerly Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib; born August 25, 1983) is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. His first essay collection, ''They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us'', was published in 2017. His 2021 essay collection ''A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance'' received the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Abdurraqib received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.

Abdurraqib's poetry works include the 2016 poetry collection ''The Crown Ain't Worth Much'' and the 2019 collection ''A Fortune for Your Disaster.'' Abdurraqib's 2019 non-fiction book on the American hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, ''Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on A Tribe Called Quest'', was on the long list for the 2019 National Book Award. Provided by Wikipedia