Lupita Eyde-Tucker

Lupita Eyde-Tucker writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish. A native of New Jersey, she moved to Guayaquil, Ecuador at the age of twelve, where she fell in love with poetry in Spanish. She's the winner of the 2021 Unbound Emerging Poet Prize, and her poems have recently appeared in Women's Voices for Change, Yemassee, Rattle, [PANK], Night Heron Barks, McNeese Review, and Jet Fuel Review. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Lupita is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Florida. She has received financial support from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Translators Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, and New York Summer Writing Institute. She will be a Staff Scholar at Bread Loaf Translators Conference in June 2022. In May 2022 her manuscript, Eucalyptus, was named a finalist in the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. Lupita teaches poetry virtually to elementary students in Miami-Dade County through O, Miami in the Classroom. Read more of her poems here: www.NotEnoughPoetry.com