Grace Ocasio

Poet

Charlotte, NC

North Carolina US

Email:

gwocasio@att.net

Website:

mynameisgraceiwrite.com

Author's Bio

Education:

Sarah Lawrence College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Family Reunion (Broadstone Books, 2020)

The Speed of Our Lives (BlazeVOX books, 2014)

Chapbook:

Hollerin from This Shack (Ahadada Books, 2009)

Journals:

Black Renaissance Noire

Court Green

Poetry South

Rattle

Two Hawks Quarterly

Prizes won:

A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Grace C. Ocasio placed as a finalist in the 2016 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in Poetry. A recipient of the 2014 North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant, she won honorable mention in the 2012 James Applewhite Poetry Prize, the 2011 Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka Poetry Prize, and a 2011 Napa Valley Writers' Conference scholarship.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, George Orwell, and Toni Morrison

What I'm reading now:

The League of Seven by Alan Gratz

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

African American

Prefers to work with:

At Risk Youth

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

New York

Raised in:

Hartsdale, NY

New York

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Last update: Jan 21, 2021