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Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher. His poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Nine Mile, Lake Effect, DIALOGIST, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Zócalo Public Square, and PBS NewsHour, among other venues.
He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Colgate Writers Conference, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Binghamton University, Arizona State University, Saint Louis University, the University of Arizona, and Arizona Humanities, where he is a Humanities Scholar.
Ernesto has served as Series Editor for the 2021 and 2022 Digging Press Poetry Series, Assistant Editor for Digging Press’ Chapbook Series, Assistant Poetry Editor at Digging Through The Fat literary journal, Poetry Reader for The Offing, Reviewer for MFA App Review, and has been a recurring judge for Arizona State University’s Annual Writers’ Place Awards and the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers’ Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Poetry Contests.
He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MA in English from Saint Louis University, and an MA in Anglo/North-American Cultural and Literary Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain. He has taught Film, Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Composition and Rhetoric, and various literature courses, and is a frequent moderator, guest lecturer, and creative writing judge.
He currently teaches at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.