Trace Howard DePass is the author of Self-portrait as the space between us (PANK Books, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Prize. He served as the editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2017 & as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on screen and radio—BET Next Level, Billboard, Blavity, Poetry Foundation, Ours Poetica, and NPR’s The Takeaway—and in print— SAND Journal, Entropy Magazine, Sonora Review, Platypus Press, Split This Rock, The Poetry Project, Bettering American Poetry (Volume 3), & Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. DePass is a Poetry Incubator, Teaching Artist Project, & Poets House Fellow
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in Reckoning, Resilience, Reconnection Open Mic at NYTW Featuring Poetic Theater Productions
Poet in Love, Redefined 2019: Resilience
Poet in Love, Redefined 2017: Resist in Poetic License: Resistance
Poet in Generation Now 2016