Winner of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature
Elizabeth Acevedo was the 2022 Young People’s Poet Laureate and the New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award.
She is also the author of With the Fire on High–which was 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, named a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book and a Kirkus finalist.
Her next book, Anger Is Only a Shadow, will be released on September 15, 2026.
She holds a BA in performing arts from George Washington University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, CantoMundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion and resides in Washington, DC, with her family.
