Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta
Bio:
Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is a full professor at the City University of New York-BCC. Her poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, was a 2020 finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, and is available from Get Fresh Books. She is the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, 2019), an anthology featuring over 30 scholarly and creative works by Latinas from throughout the United States. Acosta’s work has been featured in The Baffler; Best American Poetry; Split this Rock; The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; Platform Review; Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology; The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature; African American Women’s Language; The Handbook of Latinos and Education; Diálogo; Salon; and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
She is a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poet, a Macondo Fellow, and the Creative Writing Editor at Chicana/Latina Studies Journal.
From representation to façade: Grisel Acosta takes us through how West Side Story captivated, then angered her
