Grisel Y. Acosta

Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is a full professor at the City University of New York-BCC. Her most recent book is Wild, published by FlowerSong Press in 2026. She is the editor of the Routledge anthology, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, which was listed by NBC Latino. Her first book of poetry, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, a finalist for the 2020 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, is available from Get Fresh Books. Select work can be found in: Poetry Magazine; Poem-A-Day; The Hopkins Review; The Baffler; Kweli Journal; Gathering of the Tribes Magazine; Acentos Review; Paterson Literary Review; NOMBONO: Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Poets; The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; Speculative Fiction for Dreamers; Celebrating Twenty Years of Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader; African American Women's Language; The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. She is a 2025 New Jersey Council on the Arts/Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellowship recipient; a VONA fellow; a Sundress Academy for the Arts Fellowship recipient; and a CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Fellowship recipient (funded by the Mellon Foundation).