John Yau is a poet, art critic, fiction writer, and publisher whose recent books include Tell it Slant, Genghis Chan on Drums, and Please Wait by the Coat Room: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art. He founded Black Square Editions and cofounded the online magazine Hyperallergic Weekend. He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Academy of American Poets, among others. He is professor emeritus at Rutgers University and lives in Beacon, New York.