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Poets > Terrance Hayes
Born: 1971-11-18, Columbia, South Carolina
Status: Included
Poet, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Lighthead, who studied and taught in Pittsburgh for about two decades.
| When | Kind | What |
|---|---|---|
| to 1997 | Studied | M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh writing program, 1997.[1][2] |
| 2001–2013 | Taught | Professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.[1] |
| from 2013 | Taught | Joined the University of Pittsburgh English department, where he cofounded the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics with Yona Harvey and Dawn Lundy Martin.[1] |
| 2006 | Published | Carnegie Mellon University Press reissued his first book, Muscular Music.[1] |
| from 2023 | Edited | Named an editor of the Pitt Poetry Series with Nancy Krygowski and Jeffrey McDaniel, after serving as an interim editor in 2022.[1] |
| about two decades | Lived | Lived in Pittsburgh for about twenty years before moving to New York.[1] |
Hayes was born and raised in South Carolina and now teaches at New York University. His Pittsburgh years cover his graduate study, two faculty appointments and most of his published books.