Grisel Y. Acosta
Author · 1 book
Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is a full professor at the City University of New York-BCC. She is the editor of the Routledge anthology, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity. Her first book of poetry, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere was a finalist for the 2020 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Select work can be found in: Best American Poetry; The Baffler; Kweli Journal; Gathering of the Tribes Magazine; Acentos Review; Paterson Literary Review; Vida: Women in Literary Arts; Salon; NOMBONO: Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Poets; The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; Speculative Fiction for Dreamers; Celebrating Twenty Years of Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader; African American Women's Language; The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature; In Full Color: The First Five Years Anthology; and Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom. She is a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poet, a Macondo Fellow, the Creative Writing Editor at Chicana/Latina Studies Journal, and the Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association.
