Poetry — Aracelis Girmay (Whiting Award 2015)Aracelis Girmay

Poetry — Aracelis Girmay (Whiting Award 2015)

Whiting Award · 2015 · Winner

Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2015Poetry

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Whiting Award	2015	Winner	“Poetry — Aracelis Girmay”

About This Book

Aracelis Girmay is recognized for her poetry collections — including Kingdom Animalia — for her elegies of diaspora and grief that locate the cosmic within the personal. This record is a writer-level placeholder for her Whiting Award.

About the Author

Aracelis GirmayAmerican

Aracelis Girmay (born 1977) is an American poet, teacher, editor, and collagist, best known for her poetry collections Teeth (2007), Kingdom Animalia (2011), and the black maria (2016), with recent works including Green of All Heads (2025). Her achievements include the Whiting Award (2015), finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2018), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Cave Canem Foundation. Poets.org, Stanford English