Kareem Tayyar's most recent book is Let Us Now Praise Ordinary Things (Arroyo Seco, 2021). His novel, The Prince of Orange County (Pelekinesis, 2018), received the Eric Hoffer Prize for Young Adult Fiction, and he was awarded a Wurlitzer Poetry Fellowship in 2019. His collection of nonfiction, Daydreaming & Other Essays, was released by J. New Books in December, 2021.