photo by Chris Cheney

​Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. She earned a BA in English from the University of San Diego, where she was the recipient of the Lindsey J. Cropper Award for Creative Writing in Poetry selected by Ilya Kaminsky. In 2014, she completed the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston, MA. She's received fellowships & scholarships from the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Workshop, the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, & the NY State Summer Writers Institute.
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Amezcua's debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón, (Shelterbelt Press, 2018). She is the author of three chapbooks and her second collection of poems, Fighting Is Like a Wife​, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. 

Eloisa is founder of Costura Creative & a visiting faculty member for the Randolph College Low Residency MFA program. She is also the founding editor-in-chief of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry & Associate Poetry Editor at Honeysuckle Press.