Cyree Jarelle Johnson (he/him) is a poet and writer from Piscataway, NJ. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Yale Review, Granta, Poetry, and Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, among other publications.
He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University with support from Columbia University and the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund.
WATCHNIGHT, his second collection of poetry won the 2023 James Laughlin Award. It will be published by Nightboat Books in February 2024. Development of the work was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, won a 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and is available now from Nightboat Books. Development of the work was supported by Astraea Foundation’s Global Arts Fund, Culture/Strike Climate Change and Environmental Justice Fellowship, and the Rewire News Disabled Writers Fellowship.
