Elizabeth Acevedo

Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Poet X (2018), which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. In 2022, Acevedo became the Young People's Poet Laureate. She is also the author of With the Fire on High (2019), named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, and Clap When You Land (2020), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and Kirkus finalist. Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. She lives with her partner in Washington, DC.