Elisa Díaz Castelo

Elisa Díaz Castelo is the winner of the Bellas Artes Poetry Prize 2020 for El reino de lo no lineal; the Alonso Vidal National Poetry Prize 2017 for her first collection, Principia (Tierra Adentro, Mexico); and the Bellas Artes Prize in Literary Translation 2019 for her rendering in Spanish of Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds. With the support of the Fulbright and Goldwater scholarships, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at New York University (2013-2015). She won the Poetry International Prize 2016, the second place at the Literal Latté 2015 prize, and was a semifinalist for the Tupelo Quarterly Prize 2016. Her poems have been anthologized in Fuego de dos fraguas (Exmolino), Voces Nuevas 2017 (Torremozas), Antología Liberoamérica (Liberoamérica, Spain), and Puntas de luz (UAM). Her work in English has appeared in Poetry International, Tupelo Quarterly, and Border Crossing, among others. Her poems in Spanish have been published in Letras Libres, Revista de la Universidad, Tierra Adentro, Este País, Periódico de Poesía, and elsewhere. She received the Fundación Para las Letras Mexicanas fellowship (2016-2017-2018) and two Jóvenes Creadores FONCA fellowship (2015-2016, 2018-2019). Her book Proyecto Manhattan was recently published in Mexico by Ediciones Antílope.