Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction; the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry; and the coeditor of The People's Project. His poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Oxford American, and GQ, among other publications. His most recent book, Alive at the End of the World, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.