Angela Acosta

Dr. Acosta smiling in front of a college building

Angela Acosta is a bilingual Latina poet currently teaching teaching as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina. Her Rhysling-nominated poetry has appeared in Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and 2023 Utopia Awards Nominee for Poetry. She is author of the Elgin-nominated collection Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness: Poems of a Fabled Universe (Red Ogre Review, 2023).

Radon Works

“La (Mal)inche” – Issue 6

“Regarding the Memory of Earth” – Issue 1

“Jumping Through Spacetime” – Issue 1

Interviews

Angela returns to detail her postdoctoral Iberian Studies experience, teaching at Davidson College, the ongoing Latinx debate, her latest spec poetry chapbook, and an inside look into her latest Radon poem.

February 16, 2024

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Angela investigates academia vs. creative pursuits, Latinx sci-fi poetry, and writing while obtaining a PhD.

October 29, 2022

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