This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Derrick Austin
About
Derrick Austin is the author of the poetry collections Tenderness, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water. His next collection, This Elegance, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2026. New poems have recently appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, and the Sewanee Review.