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Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s . He previously served as the director of the . Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Stones, shortlisted for the ; Brown; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015, longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the �����Ƶ of American Poets; Jelly Roll: a blues, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry; Bunk a , and named on many “best of” lists for 2017; and The Grey Album, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. The poetry editor of the New Yorker, where he hosts the , Young is the editor of nine other volumes, most recently the acclaimed anthology . He is a member of the American �����Ƶ of Arts and Sciences, the American �����Ƶ of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Historians, and was named a Chancellor of the �����Ƶ of American Poets in 2020.