Tuesday, March 31 7:45 PM - 9:30 PM
McLaren Complex — 252
Derrick Austin is the author of This Elegance, forthcoming from Boa Editions in May 2026. His other poetry collections include Tenderness (Boa Editions, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water (Boa Editions, 2016), which was selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr, Poetry Prize. He has had poems and essays commissioned by The New Museum, Craft Contemporary, The Brick (formerly LAXART), The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. A Cave Canem fellow, he is the recipient of a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, and an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He lives in Chicago.