Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is a writer of young adult fiction, best known for her novel in verse, The Poet X.
Acevedo is the only daughter of Dominican immigrants and was raised in New York City; she identifies as Afro-Latina. She loved poetry and hip-hop from an early age, and began performing in her local community at age fourteen. She told the Smithsonian, “My neighborhood, ‘Harlem Adjacent’ as I like to call it, was predominantly black and Latino. People from all over the Caribbean. I grew up in a...
