Ariel Francisco

Ariel Francisco is a poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami. He teaches poetry as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. His poetry collection Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head was published by FlowerSong Press in 2022. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day. He holds MFA degrees in poetry from Florida International University and in literary translation from Queens College, CUNY.