RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Miracle Arrhythmia, The Requited Distance, and Mule & Pear, which won the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her fourth collection of poetry, Lighting the Shadow, was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2016 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Poetry. Her collection, Seeing the Body, won the 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Kirkus Reviews described Griffiths’ debut novel Promise as “a stunning and evocative portrait of love, pride, and survival.” She is widely known for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. Griffiths earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and has received numerous fellowships, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Cave Canem Foundation.

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Los artistas poco comunes dominan distintos géneros y medios. La poeta, fotógrafa y artista visual Rachel Eliza Griffiths es una de ellas. Ahora ha añadido el título de novelista con Promise, un hermoso debut sobre dos jóvenes hermanas negras en el Maine de los años 50 y sobre cómo el racismo y la discriminación llegaron a los pequeños pueblos de Estados Unidos, distorsionando vidas y sueños. El libro tiene esa rara habilidad de mezclar grandes temas nacionales con los detalles vívidos y tiernos de vidas íntimas.

Crédito de la foto - Beowulf Sheehan