Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE, 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 new poetry collection ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD is out now.
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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
You can read some of Saeed’s work online.
“The Republican War Against Trans Kids” — GQ, May 2021
“I’ll Meet You Anywhere” — The Cut, March 2021
“A Stranger” — The New Yorker, July 2020
“Whose Grief? Our Grief” — GQ, June 2020
“Alive at the End of the World” — The New Yorker, March 2022
“A Spell to Banish Grief” — The New Yorker, June 2022
“Saeed, or The Other One” — Oxford American, June 2022
These are ways to contact Saeed.
Speaking Agent:
The Tuesday Agency
kevin@tuesdayagency.com
trinity@tuesdayagency.com
Literary Agent:
Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency
charlotte@sheedylit.com
Film Agent:
Michelle Kroes, CAA
michelle.kroes@caa.com
Talent Manager:
Brandon Sharp, AGENDA Management & Production