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Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate.
Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land. The Poet X is a New York Times Bestseller, National Book Award Winner, and Carnegie Medal winner. She is also the winner of the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award, the 2018 Pura Belpre Award, and the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children's Fiction of 2018. She lives in Washington, DC.
Acevedo was raised in Harlem, New York City, by Dominican immigrant parents. She is the youngest child and only daughter. By the age of 12, Acevedo decided she wanted to be a rapper, but later realized she really wanted to perform poetry. She attended The Beacon School, where she met English teacher Abby Lublin. Lublin recruited Acevedo to join her after-school poetry club to further improve her work.
At the age of 14, Acevedo competed in her first poetry slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café, and then participated in open mics at various venues in the city, including Bowery Poetry Club and Urban Word NYC.
She went to church every Sunday with her mother and participated in every sacrament. Acevedo does not practice Catholicism anymore, but still considers her relationship with her religion to be developing. She questions the teaching of religion; her book With the Fire on High is influenced by the fact that religion is empowering but "sometimes makes women and young girls question themselves."
She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts and designed her own degree using courses in performing arts, English, and sociology. She then earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park and served as an adjunct professor for bachelor level creative writing courses.
Acevedo began her career teaching eighth grade in Prince George's County, Maryland. While coaxing a student to read more, the student said she was not reading because "these books aren't about us." Acevedo realized her students were affected by the lack of diversity in their books and not by their capabilities. She then bought books that her students could relate to, and realized that she had the power to write such books too.
Following graduation from George Washington University, Acevedo went into the classroom as a 2010 Teach for America Corps participant. She continued on to teach eighth grade English in Prince George's County, Maryland. Although the school's population was 78 percent Latino and 20 percent black, she was the first Latino teacher to teach a core subject.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate.
Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land. The Poet X is a New York Times Bestseller, National Book Award Winner, and Carnegie Medal winner. She is also the winner of the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award, the 2018 Pura Belpre Award, and the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children's Fiction of 2018. She lives in Washington, DC.
Acevedo was raised in Harlem, New York City, by Dominican immigrant parents. She is the youngest child and only daughter. By the age of 12, Acevedo decided she wanted to be a rapper, but later realized she really wanted to perform poetry. She attended The Beacon School, where she met English teacher Abby Lublin. Lublin recruited Acevedo to join her after-school poetry club to further improve her work.
At the age of 14, Acevedo competed in her first poetry slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café, and then participated in open mics at various venues in the city, including Bowery Poetry Club and Urban Word NYC.
She went to church every Sunday with her mother and participated in every sacrament. Acevedo does not practice Catholicism anymore, but still considers her relationship with her religion to be developing. She questions the teaching of religion; her book With the Fire on High is influenced by the fact that religion is empowering but "sometimes makes women and young girls question themselves."
She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts and designed her own degree using courses in performing arts, English, and sociology. She then earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park and served as an adjunct professor for bachelor level creative writing courses.
Acevedo began her career teaching eighth grade in Prince George's County, Maryland. While coaxing a student to read more, the student said she was not reading because "these books aren't about us." Acevedo realized her students were affected by the lack of diversity in their books and not by their capabilities. She then bought books that her students could relate to, and realized that she had the power to write such books too.
Following graduation from George Washington University, Acevedo went into the classroom as a 2010 Teach for America Corps participant. She continued on to teach eighth grade English in Prince George's County, Maryland. Although the school's population was 78 percent Latino and 20 percent black, she was the first Latino teacher to teach a core subject.