Department of English

Lupita Eyde-Tucker was born in New Jersey and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador where she began writing and translating poetry in English and Spanish. The winner of the 2021 Unbound Emerging Poet Prize, her poems have appeared in Nashville Review, Columbia Journal, Raleigh Review, Women’s Voices for Change, [PANK], American Life in Poetry, Best New Poets 2022, The Cortland Review, and Ninth Letter. In 2022, her poetry collection was named a finalist for the Andres Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas.

Since 2018 she has been translating Venezuelan poet Oriette D’Angelo’s work, and her translations have appeared in journals such as Nashville Review, Columbia Review, Asymptote, The Los Angeles Review, Circumference, and The Arkansas International, which nominated her translation “Knee on Dirt” for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Her translation of D’Angelo’s chapbook “Inquietudes” will be published by Scambler Books in 2023.

Lupita is a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Florida and has received fellowships and institutional support from Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, the NY State Summer Writers Institute, and Vermont Studio Center. She designed and teaches AML2410 African American Poetry & Transformation, as well as Creative Writing (CRW) workshops in poetry.

Fields of Study:

• Creative Writing – Poetry
• Literary Translation – Poetry