Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 3800 1720
https://isni.org/isni/0000000038001720
Name: 
Girmay, Aracelis
Dates: 
born 1977-12-10
Creation class: 
Language material
Creation role: 
author
Titles: 
black maria, The
Changing, changing
Teeth
Notes: 
African American poets
Associated Language:
Girmay, Aracelis. Changing, changing, 2005 ECIP t.p. (story & illustrations by Aracelis Girmay)
Teeth, 2007 ECIP t.p. (Aracelis Girmay) data view (b. Dec. 10, 1977; raised in southern California)
The black maria, 2016 ECIP t.p. (Aracelis Girmay) data view (African American poetess; MFA from New York University; author of two poetry collections: Teeth; and, Kingdom Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award; recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson Foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA; currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program; originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts)
Sources: