Ernesto L. Abeytia

Ernesto L. Abeytia (he/him) is a Spanish-American poet and educator, with training in English literature, rhetoric and composition, online teaching, and multi-genre creative writing. He specializes in bilingual poetry and poetics, modern and contemporary American poetry, and Latinx poetry.

He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Colgate Writers Conference, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Binghamton University, Arizona State University, and Arizona Humanities, where he is a Humanities Scholar.

His poetry and essays appear in Nine Mile, Lake Effect, DIALOGIST, Fugue, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Zócalo Public Square, and elsewhere. His work is anthologized in To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers (Scottish Poetry Library, 2018), Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making (The Operating System, 2019), and Dear Human at the Edge of Time (Paloma Press, 2023), winner of the 20th Annual Best Book Awards by the American Book Fest. He guest-edited the inaugural Digging Press Poetry Series (Digging Press, 2022).

Ernesto has presented scholarly research and led creative writing workshops at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, ASU’s Día de Los Niños/Día de Los Libros Celebration, ASU’s Young Adult Writing Program, and Phoenix Fan Fusion.

He has taught university courses in creative writing (poetry, fiction, and non-fiction), film studies, English literature, professional writing, research methods, and first-year composition. He is an experienced community events organizer, project manager, grants reviewer, workshop facilitator, and panel moderator, and has been a recurring judge for the Arizona Poetry Out Loud Regional and State Finals Competitions and the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers’ Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Poetry Contests.

In his current role, Ernesto helps advance university-wide research, scholarship, and initiatives around Public Interest Technology, Responsible Innovation, and Principled Innovation within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.