Hayes is the author of “Muscular Music,” which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Whiting Writers Award. His second volume of poetry, “Hip Logic,” was selected as a National Poetry Series Open Competition Winner and is forthcoming from Viking Penguin.

His work has been anthologized in “Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers” and “American Poetry: The Next Generation.” His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and poetry magazines including The Southern Review, Chelsea, and Crab Orchard Review. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the UA program in creative writing, the department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.