Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest
release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension is a New York Times bestseller
and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His previous book, A Little
Devil in America, was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In
2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2024 he was named a Windham-
Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest
release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension is a New York Times bestseller
and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His previous book, A Little
Devil in America, was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In
2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2024 he was named a Windham-
Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
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