B. 1988
Queer Black Human standing at at podium wearing a Yellow Gold's Shirt and a Jean shorts, also a leather vest and black hat. Behind them there is a Brooklyn Poets banner.

Photo by CR Grimmer

jason b. crawford (they/he) born in Washington, DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz (Sundress Publications, 2022). Their second collection, YEET! was the winner of the 2023 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize. They have been published in Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, and other publications. The were a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School.