Saeed Jones is a poet, essayist, and editor from New Orleans. He is the author of the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, which won the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, as well as the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize. He is the former executive editor of Buzzfeed News and the current editor-in-chief of VSB.