Gisselle Yepes is a Puerto Rican and Colombian storyteller from the Bronx. They are currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University, where they received the 2021 Vera Meyer Strube Prize with the Academy of American Poets. Gisselle is a Letras Boricuas 2022 Fellowship Recipient, a 2022 Tin House Scholar, and a 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop Reader. Their nonfiction piece “On Her Waters Summoning Us to Drown” won december magazine’s 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction. Their work has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Academy of American Poets, and voicemail poems. Gisselle holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, where they earned the Winchester Fellowship, the Sophie and Anne Reed Prize, and the award for Connecticut Poetry Laureate. They are an alum of Tin House Summer Workshop, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Anaphora Writing Residency.
