Terrance Hayes is author of Hip Logic (Penguin 2002), which was a 2001 National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He received a Whiting Writers Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book of poems, Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999).

Hayes has read his poetry and published his poems throughout the country and his promise as an important new voice in American poetry has been noted by Alice Quinn, poetry editor of the New Yorker, and by literary reviewers for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Black Issues Book Review and elsewhere. Wind in a Box, his third book of poems, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2005.

Hayes currently lives with his family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is an associate professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.