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Aracelis Girmay is a poet who makes works across genres. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections, including the recently published GREEN OF ALL HEADS (BOA, 2025). For her work, she received a Whiting Award and was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Other work includes the chapbook and was a flower, made in collaboration with book artist Valentina Améstica, as well as picture books for children. Recent texts (poetry and prose) have appeared in Astra, e-flux, The Paris Review online, Periphery Journal, and The Yale Review. Girmay is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA, 2020) and So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket Books, 2023). She is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and teaches at Stanford University.
Aracelis Girmay is a poet who makes works across genres. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections, including the recently published GREEN OF ALL HEADS (BOA, 2025). For her work, she received a Whiting Award and was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Other work includes the chapbook and was a flower, made in collaboration with book artist Valentina Améstica, as well as picture books for children. Recent texts (poetry and prose) have appeared in Astra, e-flux, The Paris Review online, Periphery Journal, and The Yale Review. Girmay is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA, 2020) and So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket Books, 2023). She is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and teaches at Stanford University.
