Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards (introduction) is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In 2023 he co-wrote Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music, an autobiography of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Henry Threadgill, which won a 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2020. His other books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism and Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination.