Visiting Author
Elizabeth Acevedo

National Poetry Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo received the 2018 National Book Award for her New York Times best-selling novel, The Poet X. She is also the winner of the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children’s Fiction and the author of Clap When You Land, With the Fire On High, and the chapbook Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths. Acevedo holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. She resides in Washington, DC with her husband.

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Acevedo will be visiting Kean University for a reading and Q & A session on September 28, 2021. All First-year students are invited to attend.