Ernesto L. Abeytia

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

His poems and essays appear 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 has presented 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 various recognitions and awards, including fellowships and grants from the Colgate Writers Conference, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, 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, and Assistant Poetry Editor at Digging Through The Fat literary journal. He is a frequent panelist/reviewer for arts and humanities grants and awards, and has been a recurring judge for Arizona State University’s Annual Writers’ Place Awards, the Arizona Poetry Out Loud Regional and State Finals Competitions, 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 experience teaching university-level courses in Film, Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Composition and Rhetoric, and English Literature.

His current focus is on supporting efforts around Public Interest Technology, Principled Innovation, and Use-Inspired Research within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.