Elizabeth Acevedo

Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author best known for the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land. The Poet X follows a Dominican-American teen in Harlem caught between her strict family's faith and her love of slam poetry, and it won the National Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. Her work has also earned the Michael L. Printz Award and the Pura Belpre Award, and in 2022 the Poetry Foundation named her Young People's Poet Laureate. Acevedo lives in Washington, DC.