Lupita Eyde-Tucker

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Gainsville, FL

Year at Millay: 2019

Awards/Honors: Finalist, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN America, New York, NY (2025); Poesiæuropa, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Polvese Island, Lake Trasimeno, Italy (2024); Bronze Medal Winner, Poetry, Florida Book Awards, Tallahassee, FL (2024); Staff Scholar, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (2021–2023); Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2022); Finalist, Andrés Montoya Prize, "Letras Latinas," Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (2022); Award Winner, Emerging Poet Award, Unbound Book Festival, Columbia, MO (2021); Prize Winner, Betty Gabehart Prize, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (2019).

Website: http://www.NotEnoughPoetry.com

Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a poet and literary translator from New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. Lupita holds an MFA in Creative Writing–Poetry from the University of Florida, and has received fellowships and institutional support from Vermont Studio Center, Poesiæuropa, Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, and the New York State Summer Writing Institute. Lupita’s poems have recently appeared in Third Coast, Pleiades, Harbor Review, Best New Poets, Poem-a-Day, The Cortland Review, Ninth Letter, MER, and Anacapa Review. Her English translation of Oriette D’Angelo’s poetry collection, Homeland of Swarms was published in 2024 by co•im•press and is the winner of the 2024 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal in Poetry. During Lupita’s stay at Millay Arts in December 2019 she worked on the translation.