Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize and reviewed by Publishers Weekly. She is a multi-nominated Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Literary Hub, Poets.org, and The Los Angeles Review have published her work, and poems are forthcoming in The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, The Cimarron Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Looking to increase the visibility of poetry by BIPOC authors, she is the creator of the Smith Silva Challenge, which is a reading challenge that highlights poetry books by BIPOC authors.
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