Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones

Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones is a writer from Puerto Rico who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from Stony Brook University, where she also taught poetry to undergraduates. Her debut full-length book, The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History, was published by Rose Metal Press in 2023. It is a lyric work of creative nonfiction that combines family history with the history of Puerto Rico, organized around six hurricanes. She is the author of the chapbook Bedroom Pop (Dancing Girl Press, 2021). In 2022 she received a Letras Boricuas Fellowship from the Flamboyan Arts Fund and the Mellon Foundation.