Ernesto L. Abeytia

Ernesto L. Abeytia (he/him) is a Spanish-American poet and educator specializing in Spanish-English bilingual poetry and poetics, modern and contemporary American poetry, and Latinx poetry. He is also Project Manager for Responsible and Sustainable Innovation within Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, where he advances interdisciplinary initiatives in Responsible Innovation, Principled Innovation, Public Interest Technology, and responsible AI development and governance. As Principled Innovation College Catalyst for the Rob Walton College of Global Futures, he supports character-centered education, research, scholarship, and institutional practices across the college’s five schools.

Abeytia’s poetry and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Nine Mile, Lake Effect, DIALOGIST, Zócalo Public Square, and elsewhere. His work has been anthologized in To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers (Scottish Poetry Library, 2018), Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making (The Operating System, 2019), and the award-winning Dear Human at the Edge of Time (Paloma Press, 2023). He guest-edited the inaugural Digging Press Poetry Series (Digging Press, 2022). His honors include fellowships and grants from the Colgate Writers Conference, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Binghamton University, Arizona State University, and Arizona Humanities, where he serves as a Humanities Scholar.

Abeytia has taught literature, creative writing, film studies, professional writing, research methods, and rhetoric and composition at institutions in the United States and Spain. He is currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature at Arizona State University.