Joy Priest
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), which won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and her poetry has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Atlantic, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. In February, her poetry will launch a two-year initiative at The Atlantic called Inheritance, a project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory. Her essays have appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Poets & Writers, and ESPN.
