Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He is the author of 2016 poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, published by Button Poetry; the 2017 essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, published by Two Dollar Radio; the 2019 non-fiction book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on A Tribe Called Quest on the American hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, published by University of Texas Press; the 2019 poetry collection A Fortune for Your Disaster, published by Tin House; and the 2021 essay collection A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, published by Penguin Random House, which received the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Go Ahead in the Rain was on the long list for the 2019 National Book Award.