Author name: Eliot Parker Graves
Eliot Parker Graves (they/them), a Black writer, musician, and influencer from New York City, demystifies identity, love, and hunger through language and rhythm.
Their poems have appeared in Rookie Magazine, Soup Can Magazine, and Bicycle Comics’ In Absentia (2020). They are a Metropolitan Museum of Art ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ Poet-In-Residence (2015), Winter Tangerine ‘Open by Riot Laughter’ workshop alum (2017), a three-time Burrowing Artists Playwriting Fellow (2020-2022), and an Emotional Historians workshop participant (2022). Notably, Graves has read at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Apollo Theater, and The Kennedy Memorial Center, among others.
Graves is currently completing their debut EP.
Their free time is spent reading transformative fiction, playing Blues and Punk Rock, spoiling dogs and admiring the Moon.
