1. Elizabeth Acevedo is the winner of the 2019 Michael L Printz Award, the 2018 Pura Belpre Award, and the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children's Fiction of 2018.
17 Facts About Elizabeth Acevedo
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Elizabeth Acevedo was raised in Harlem, New York City, by Dominican immigrant parents.
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Elizabeth Acevedo attended The Beacon School, where she met English teacher Abby Lublin.
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Lublin recruited Elizabeth Acevedo to join her after-school poetry club to further improve her work.
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At the age of 14, Elizabeth Acevedo competed in her first poetry slam at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and then participated in open mics at various venues in the city, including Bowery Poetry Club and Urban Word NYC.
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Elizabeth Acevedo went to church every Sunday with her mother and participated in every sacrament.
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Elizabeth Acevedo attended George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts and designed her own degree using courses in performing arts, English, and sociology.
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Elizabeth Acevedo began her career teaching eighth grade in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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Elizabeth Acevedo then bought books that her students could relate to, and realized that she had the power to write such books too.
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Elizabeth Acevedo continued on to teach eighth grade English in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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Elizabeth Acevedo is a previous National Slam Champion, as well as former head coach for the DC Youth Slam Team.
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Elizabeth Acevedo has performed at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, South Africa's State Theatre, Bozar in Brussels, and the National Library of Kosovo.
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Elizabeth Acevedo has delivered several TED Talks, and her masterful poetry videos have been featured in Latina magazine, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost, and Upworthy.
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Elizabeth Acevedo is the author of three young adult novels.
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Elizabeth Acevedo is both a CantoMundo fellow and Cave Canem fellow.
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Elizabeth Acevedo's poems have appeared or are forthcoming from Poetry, Puerto Del Sol, Callaloo, The Notre Dame Review, and other publications.
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Elizabeth Acevedo grew up in a conservative and devout Catholic household.