Noel Quiñones

Noel Quiñones is an Emmy award-winning Puerto Rican writer, educator, and speaker from the Bronx. Noel’s writing has appeared in POETRY, the Boston Review, Poem-a-Day, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT anthology, as well as the Michigan Quarterly Review, for which they won the 2025 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize. They have also received fellowships from CantoMundo, Lambda Literary, the Poetry Foundation, Tin House, and the Vermont Studio Center. A graduate of the University of Mississippi M.F.A. program and founder of Project X, a Bronx-based spoken word poetry organization, Noel is currently a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center. Their debut poetry collection, Orange, will be published with CavanKerry Press in May, 2026.