Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet from Piscataway, New Jersey. He is the author of SLINGSHOT, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and WATCHNIGHT, winner of the 2023 James Laughlin Award by the Academy of American Poets. Johnson was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and served as the inaugural poet-in-residence at the Brooklyn Public Library. He is a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.