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India Lena González is a poet, editor, and artist. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University (BA) and received her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing program. While at NYU she served as a writing instructor for undergraduates and received a Writers in the Public Schools fellowship enabling her to teach literature to middle school students via Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Her work is published in American Chordata, The Brooklyn Review, Lampblack, PANK, Pigeon Pages, and Poets & Writers Magazine, among others. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, India is also a professionally trained dancer, choreographer, and actor. fox woman get out! is her debut poetry collection and was a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Norma Farber First Book Award. She lives in Harlem. 

Books by India Lena González

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Chen Chen

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Boa Classic Book Bundle

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Unlucky Lucky Days

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Splashed Things

WINNER of the 2026 CALIBA Golden Poppy Award in Poetry “In my new life, I must learn everything again,” begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas’s dark…

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Permanent Exhibit

Matthew Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind with these collage-style essays. Exercising a rapacious intellectual curiosity, he seamlessly integrates flying snakes,…

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Against Distance

In Peter Makuck's Against Distance, nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes—oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts—pressure and test human relationships. In…

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Beings and Things on Their Own

The recipient of the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke is the author…

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Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China, Translated

This collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their…

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