ABOUT
Elizabeth Spenst is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and critic with work appearing in Rattle, On the Seawall, the Tuskegee Review, Paste Magazine, ARTS.BLACK, the Inquisitive Eater, and elsewhere. She's received institutional support for her research and writing from Yale University, the New School, Cave Canem, and Brooklyn Poets. She reads poetry for Pigeon Pages and edits poetry for Killing the Buddha. A child of Trinidadian and Mennonite Diasporas, she's currently at home in Brooklyn, NY.
Poetry
Chicken Adobo (the Inquisitive Eater, online, 2025
American Story (the Tuskegee Review, online, 2024)
First Love (for Jordan) (the Tuskegee Review, online, 2024)
Poem for Myself (Rattle, online and in print, 2022)​
My God is Oath, My God is Abundance / Full of Grace / Ghost (Spectre) (On the Seawall, online, 2021)
Nonfiction and Criticism
John F. O’Donnell is on Lithium and Proud (Paste Magazine, online, 2024)
On Generations, a memoir by Lucille Clifton (On the Seawall, online, 2021)
Kara Walker’s Sainthood (ARTS.BLACK, online, 2016)
The Dead Shall be Raised, (Down Magazine, online, 2015)
THIS IS NOT AN OP-ED, (Down Magazine, online, 2015)