Elisabet Velasquez

Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer from Brooklyn, now living in Jersey City. Her debut young adult novel in verse When We Make It received the Kirkus best YA Fiction Award, YALSA Best fiction for Young Adults award. It went on to be a 2021 Goodreads Readers Choice Nominee, a 2022 Gotham Prize Finalist, and was named a New York Times Young Adult Books To Watch For. Her work has been published by The Academy Of American Poets, MoMa, Longreads Refinery 29, Tidal and more. Her book has been added to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino General Motors Learning Lounge Library. When she is not writing she is living the life she hopes to write about.