Saeed Jones
“I’m most fierce when I’m fighting for the people I care about.... [O]ur connections to each other, our care for each other across the bridges of difference, really is one of the major keys to not just surviving, but transforming this moment.”
Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His most recent book, Alive at the End of the World, won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.
Saeed Jones is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the Media, Health and Medicine program at Harvard Medical School. His memoir Home Out There is forthcoming from Washington Square Press. He co-hosts the podcast Vibe Check with Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford.
“Saeed was a delight to work with, second only to the experience of his talk. Everyone loved him! Our patrons found him to be thoughtful and charming speaker.”