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Elisabet Velasquez

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Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer born in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Centro Voces, Latina Magazine, Longreads, We Are Mitú, Tidal, and Martín Espada’s anthology What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump. When We Make It is her debut novel. Elisabet lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Books by Elisabet Velasquez

The Book of Vanished Names

In a city where books and individuality are banned, Majia is training to takeover her father's role as record keeper of the one sanctioned book. Except the secrets of the past will determine her future...and asking questions may be as deadly as keeping silent. A gripping and timely YA novel-in-verse by acclaimed poet Elisabet Velasquez.

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When We Make It

An Indies Introduce and Next List young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to "make it," touching on themes of mental illness, sexual assault, food insecurity and gentrification, for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo.

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