Premios/ Awards
2023 Felice Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor Washington University in St. Louis, 2023.
2023 National Translation Award in Poetry Longlist for The Rust of History (Circumference Press, 2023)
2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Longlist for The Rust of History (Circumference Press, 2023)
2023 Premio Campoy-Ada para Poesía juvenil por antes que isla es volcán/ before island is volcano (Beacon Press, 2022)
2023 Sundial Literary Translation Award por The Book of Conjurations de Irizelma Robles (Sundial House/Columbia University Press, 2023)
2022 International Latino Book Awards Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award for antes que isla es volcán/ before island is volcano (Beacon Press, 2022)
2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry for x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación (University of Arizona Press, 2021)
2020 CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry Finalist for while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds, LLC, 2019)
2020 Pen America Open Book Award Longlist for while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds, LLC, 2019)
2019 Premio Nuevas Voces del Festival de la Palabra de Puerto Rico por lo terciario/ the tertiary (1st ed. Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018; 2nd ed, Noemi Press, 2019)
2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry for lo terciario/ the tertiary (1st ed. Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018; 2nd ed, Noemi Press, 2019)
2018 National Book Award Longlist: Poetry for lo terciario/ the tertiary (1st ed. Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018; 2nd ed, Noemi Press, 2019)
2018 Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets for x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación (University of Arizona Press, 2021)
2018-2019 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia
2010 el Primer y el Segundo premio en la categoría de Poesía en el Decimosexto Certamen Literario de la Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico por poemas de Caneca del anhelos turbios (Editora Educación Emergente, 2011)
2010 Primer lugar en el Certamen de Poesía del Festival Cultural Queer del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez por poemas de Caneca del anhelos turbios (Editora Educación Emergente, 2011)
Becas/ Grants & Fellowships
2021 National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship
2019-2021 Writer for the Art for Justice Fund at the University of Arizona Poetry Center
2020 University of Houston and Arte Publico Press US Latino Digital Humanities USLDH Grant-In-Aid
2020 Nadya Aisenberg MacDowell Colony Fellowship
2020 La Impresora Poet in Residency
2019 Playwright Fellow at the Sundance Institute Playwrights and Composer Retreat
2019 Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets
2018-2019 Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Jazz Residency
2018 CantoMundo Fellow
2004 Scholarship to attend Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program
Radio Bemba/ Grapevine
"‘Places That Weren’t Supposed to Be Places,” New York Review, Carolina A. Miranda, 2023.
“‘La Treintena’ 2023: 30 (Something) Books of Latinx Poetry,” The Latinx Project, 2023.
"What Does a Post-Hurricane World Look Like?,” Hyperallergic, Valentina Di Liscia, 2023.
"An Ambitious Whitney Exhibition Charts Puerto Rican Artists Resilience Following Hurricane María,” Maximiliano Durón, 2023.
"All at Once, the Multiverse is Everywhere,” David M. de León, The Yale Review, 2023.
“Best Museum Exhibits in NYC to Explores in 2023,” TimeOut, 2023.
“Primera gran muestra de arte puertorriqueño en un museo de EEUU en casi 50 años,” Artishock, 2023.
“La puertorriqueña Marcela Guerrero traza el nuevo rumbo del Whitney Museum en Nueva York,” El Nuevo Día, 2023.
"Arte puertorriqueño en el Whitney,” El Nuevo Día, 2023.
“Action Books | Our Favorite Books of Poetry in Translation 2022,” Action Books blog, 2022.
“At the Whitney Museum Puerto Rican Artists Reflect on the Tragedy and Transformation of Hurricane María,” Artsy, 2022.
”The Defining Exhibitions of 2022,” ARTnews, 2022.
"Hurricane Maria changed Puerto Rico. In a new exhibit, artists reflect back,” CNN, 2022.
"Puerto Rico importa más allá del desastre que dejó el huracán María. El arte lo demuestra.” The Washington Post, 2022.
”6 Books You Should Read This December,” New York Magazine, 2022.
“The Best New York Art Shows of 2022,” New York Magazine, 2022.
“Best Art of 2022,” The New York Times, 2022.
The American Library Association’s Booklist Editor’s Choice, 2022.
“Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney,” The New York Times, 2022.
“‘No existe un mundo poshuracán’: los reclamos de Puerto Rico tras María se exhiben en Nueva York,” El País, 2022.
“Poetry to Get You through the Winter,” Book Riot, 2022.
“The Puerto Rican Artists Redefining ‘American Art’ ‘No existe un mundo poshuracán’ opens at the Whitney Museum,” The Cut, 2022.
“Histórica exposición de artistas puertorriqueños”, El Nuevo Día, 2022.
“Bookshop Spring/Summer 2022 Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry Favorites,” Duende District.
“Eleven Poetry Recommendations for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month,” Orion Magazine.
“Edición 5 Orgullo VICE: Raquel Salas Rivera”, VICE Magazine.
“City Lights Booksellers’ Pride 2020 Reading List.”
“Here's how to visit Governors Island this summer without leaving your home,” Time Out Magazine.
“SPD’s Top 150 Bestsellers of the Decade,” Small Press Distribution.
“10 Collections By Latinx Poets You Might Have Missed in 2019,” Electric Lit.
“Local Latinos of Achievement,” Philadelphia Inquirer.
“The Best Books Of 2019, According To This Year's Debut Authors,” Bustle.
“Best Poetry Books of 2019,” Electric Lit.
“Best 24 LGBTQ books of 2019,” NBCNews.
“Best of 2019: Poetry Books & Poetry Collections,” Entropy.
“The New Look of Power; 38 Philadelphians Shaking Up the City,” Philadelphia Magazine.
“26 New Poetry Collections By LGBTQIA+ Writers To Look Out For In 2019,” Bustle.
“#ColorlinesReads: 6 Books That Complicate the Idea of 'Independence,'“ Colorlines.
“15 Books You Should Read This June,” LitHub.
“8 excellent Latino poetry books for National Poetry Month,” NBC.
“Best Poetry of 2018,” Book Riot.
“Colorlines Favorites of 2018.”
“Code Switch’s 2018 Book Guide.”
“5 Contemporary Puerto Rico Authors You Should Know,” Latino Book Review.
“The Best Books by Latino and Latin American Authors in 2018,” Remezcla.
“10 Great Small Press Books You Should Read,” Literary Hub.
“15 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Writers to Support,” Book Riot.
“16 Puerto Rican Women and Non-Binary Writers Telling New Stories,” Electric Lit.
Poet’s Sampler was named one of the Boston Review’s Top 25 Poems of 2017.
Entrevistas escogidas/Selected Interviews
“An Interview with Raquel Salas Rivera,” The Academy of American Poets, 2022.
GAYLETTER ISSUE 13: Elias Baez interviews Raquel Salas Rivera and Urayoán Noel, 2020.
“An Interview with Raquel Salas Rivera,” interviewed by Sarah Timmer Harvey for Asymptote, 2019.
“The moment that changed Puerto Rico,” The Cultural Frontline, BBC World Service, 2019.
“Poetic Justice,” interviewed by David Murrell for Philadelphia Magazine, 2019.
“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera,” interviewed by Candace Williams for Shondaland, 2018.
“Raquel Salas Rivera on Puerto Rico after Hurricane María,” Radio Dispatch, 2017.