Rickey Laurentiis

Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans to love the dark. They are the trans author of Death of the First Idea (Knopf, 2025) and Boy with Thorn (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), a winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a Lambda Literary Award.