Valazquez

Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer and poet from Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, who began her career in 2009 at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and later joined their slam team. She is a mother of two and uses her poetry to explore her life experiences as a first-generation Puerto Rican teen mother and GED recipient. In 2021, she published her debut young adult novel in verse, *When We Make It*, which received awards including the AudioFile Earphones Award and YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults.[1][2][8]