Aracelis Girmay

Biography

Aracelis Girmay (born December 10, 1977) is a poet, teacher, and editor from the U.S. Girmay also works with collage and essays, and has collaborated with film and sound artists. She is the author of the poetry collections GREEN OF ALL HEADS (2025), the black maria (2016), Kingdom Animalia (2011), and Teeth (2007). Her picture books include Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way (2024), with illustrations by Diana Ejaita, and What Do You Know? (2020), co-written and illustrated by Ariana Fields. For her work, she was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She is the Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing at Stanford University.

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