I'm a longform writer and editor. My journalism and cultural criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, The New Republic, Art in America, Bookforum, The Baffler, and many other outlets.
I was a finalist for the 2024 and 2021 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle, and a finalist for the 2020 Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation. My piece about Walt Whitman was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020.
I'm currently the features editor at the Poetry Foundation. I live in Chicago, where I’m working on Midnight Tremor, a book about the artist Roger Brown. The book has been supported by a 2024 individual project grant from the Graham Foundation and a 2024 Silvers Grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation.
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For inquiries related to the Poetry Foundation, please email jlybarger@poetryfoundation.org.
Twitter @jeremylybarger