Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES (Simon & Schuster), winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE (Coffee House Books), winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His most recent book ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Coffee House Press) won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.

Saeed Jones is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the Media, Health and Medicine program at Harvard Medical School. His next book HOME OUT THERE, a memoir, is forthcoming from Washington Square Press. He co-hosts the podcast VIBE CHECK with Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford.
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PRAISE for ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD

“A kaleidoscope of grief and anger mixes with the poet’s wit, giving these timely poems a striking directness… Balancing elegy with gallows humor, this penetrating collection shows Jones at his poetic best.”

— Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“It is not just his own grief Jones is shouldering, it is a legacy of systemic erasure he is both honoring and dismantling. At the same time, Saeed Jones is building a bridge for a future generation to cross.”

— D.A. Powell

“Jones’s most free-flowing work yet, a centripetal collection where rage and pain and weariness swirl and coalesce with stunning emotional and conceptual clarity, yet so intimate it feels bled from the author’s very veins.”

— Library Journal, starred review