Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GCLA New Writers Award. Her most recent poetry collection, Kingdom Animalia, was awarded the Isabella Gardner Award and published by BOA in the fall, 2011. Girmay has taught youth writing workshops in schools and community centers for the past ten years. She is assistant professor of poetry writing at Hampshire College, and also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University in New Jersey. Girmay is a Cave Canem Fellow and an Acentos board member.

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