Joy Priest

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her work—including poems, essays, and cultural criticism—has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Sewanee Review, among others. Priest currently teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and serves as the Curator of Community Programs & Practice at Pitt’s Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP). Her second book of poems, The Black Outside, is forthcoming.