Elizabeth Acevedo is an award-winning poet, novelist, and performer. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Poet X, as well as the National Book Award-winning novel With the Fire on High. Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam champion and has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She has been honored with numerous awards, including the 2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and the 2018 Pura Belpré Award. Acevedo is a passionate advocate for diversity in literature and is committed to amplifying the voices of marginalized communities.