Kyle G. Dargan is the author of four collections of poetry – The Listening, which won the Cave Canem Prize; Bouquet of Hungers, which was awarded the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Logorrhea Dementia; and, most recently, Honest Engine, which was a 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist and a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. All four books were published by the University of Georgia Press. Dargan is an associate professor of literature and director of creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C.