Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural
strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Cy Twombly
Award for Poetry by Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They have been
awarded residencies from Tin House, James Baldwin Fellowship at
MacDowell, Baldwin for the ArtsFellowship, and Millay Arts. Their second
book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021
Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a
2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have featured at The United
Nations, The MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), The Lincoln Center, The
Whitney Museum, The School of the Art Institute, The Hemispheric
Institute, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Museum, and more. Their
contributions are found in The New York Times, Academy of American
Poets, The Literary Hub, Vogue, Poetry Unbound, The Advocate, The
Rumpus, NYLON, them., Al Jazeera, & more. Find them at @Brownroundboi on social media.
