Eloisa Amezcua is an Arizona native. Her debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. She is the author of three chapbooks and is the founder and editor of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry. Her poems and translations have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Gigantic Sequins, Waxwing, Gulf Coast, and others.
At MacDowell, she completed her second poetry manuscript Fighting Is Like a Wife. Poems from this collection are published or forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Barrelhouse, Southern Indiana Review, and others.
