Trace Howard DePass is the author of
Self-portrait as the space between us (PANK Books, 2018) and editor of Scholastic’s
Best Teen Writing of 2017. He served as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on television and radio—
BET Next Level,
Billboard,
Blavity, and NPR’s
The Takeaway—and in print—Anomalous Press,
Entropy Magazine,
Split This Rock!,
The Other Side of Violet,
Best Teen Writing of 2015, and the
Voices of the East Coast youth poetry anthology. DePass is a 2018 Poets House Fellow.
