Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Brown’s first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, the New Republic, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, TIME Magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.