Born: 10 December 1977, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: ወይኒ ግርማይ
The following is republished from the National Endowment for the Arts. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award. Her new book of poems, Kingdom Animalia, won the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and will be published by BOA Editions in the fall 2011. Girmay is a Cave Canem Fellow and Acentos board member. She has taught youth poetry workshops with Community~Word and DreamYard for the past ten years, and she currently teaches poetry at Hampshire College and in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program. She is originally from Santa Ana, California.