Noel Quiñones

Noel Quiñones is an Emmy award-winning Nuyorican writer, educator, and speaker from the Bronx. Noel’s work has appeared in POETRY, Boston Review, Poem-a-Day, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT Anthology, and Michigan Quarterly Review, winning their 2025 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize. They have received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Tin House & Lambda Literary and performed & taught workshops at 100+ K-12 schools & colleges across the country. Noel is a trained Critical Service Learning practitioner, certified Restorative Justice facilitator, and bittersweet high school English Lit teacher having worked in schools for over 10 years, in 4 different states. They are a graduate of the University of Mississippi M.F.A. program, the Watering Hole & CantoMundo and currently teach writing at Odessa College & the Chicago Poetry Center. Noel is beyond hype for their debut poetry collection, Orange, forthcoming in 2026 with CavanKerry Press, and so proud to have started in spoken word poetry.

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