Nina C. Peláez is a poet, essayist, and educator based in Maui, HI. A queer, neurodivergent adoptee and the daughter of a Cuban exile, Nina was born in Las Vegas, NV and raised in Brooklyn, NY. A Best New Poets nominee, Nina’s writing often explores themes of displacement, diaspora, ecology, grief, and resilience and has been published in Narrative, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Rattle, Electric Literature, Swamp Pink, & others. She is the Associate Director of The Merwin Conservancy, is a mentor for The Adroit Journal, and is a 2025 Alumni Fellow for the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she holds and MFA in Poetry. She is seeking a publisher for her debut manuscript, and is working on a second poetry collection and a memoir-in-essays. She’s so excited to be joining Tin House in this role.
