Ernesto L. Abeytia

Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher. His poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in DIALOGIST, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Zócalo Public Square, and PBS NewsHour, among other venues. He has presented his research and led workshops at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, ASU’s Día de Los Niños/Día de Los Libros Celebration, ASU’s Young Adult Writing Program, and Phoenix Fan Fusion.

He is the recipient of an Artist Research and Development Grant, an Artist Opportunity Grant, and a Professional Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and has also received grants and fellowships from Arizona State University, Saint Louis University, the University of Arizona, and Arizona Humanities, where he is a Humanities Scholar.

Ernesto is the Assistant Editor for Digging Press’ Chapbook Series and Assistant Poetry Editor at Digging Through The Fat literary journal, 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 serves as the Project Coordinator for Responsible and Sustainable Innovation (RaSIn) within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.