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Aracelis Girmay
American poet (born 1977)
Aracelis Girmay (born December 10, 1977)[1] is an American poet.
She is the author of three poetry collections, including Kingdom Animalia (2011), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. She is also an assistant professor of poetry at Hampshire College. She has been teaching at Stanford University since the summer of 2023.
Early life
Aracelis Girmay is of Eritrean heritage[2] and comes from Santa Ana, California.[3] She attended Connecticut College[4] and earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.[5]
Career
Girmay's first collection was Teeth (2007), for which she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.[6]
In 2011, Girmay published Kingdom Animalia, for which she was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.[7] At The Rumpus, Camille T.
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