Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying (2018), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things (2015). In 2022, Limón was appointed the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States. Her sixth collection, The Hurting Kind, was called "one of the most anticipated books of 2022" by LitHub. She has received many honors, including a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and a Guggenheim Fellowship. From fall 2021 through fall 2022, Limón hosted the acclaimed poetry podcast The Slowdown.
Of Mexican-American descent, Limón was raised in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in...
