Elisabetta La Cava

Poet

Austin, TX
Texas US

Author's Bio

Elisabetta La Cava is a double immigrant born in Italy, raised in Venezuela, living in Austin, Texas. She's a UCROSS Fellow, PERIPLUS Fellow and was a 2025 Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers' Conference.

She holds an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has been seen in New Letters, Another Chicago Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, Stone Canoe, The Pointed Circle, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Texas Poetry Calendar, and others. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022)
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Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2021)
Journals:
Closed Eye Open
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Hispanic Culture Review
,
Penultimate Peanut Magazine
,
Pointed Circle
Prizes won: 

2025 SEWANEE WRITERS' CONFERENCE Tennessee Williams Scholar, 2024 NEW LETTERS Literary Awards Winner,

2022 HISPANIC CULTURE REVIEW Poetry Competition 2nd Place,

2021 CUTTHROAT A Journal of the Arts Barry Lopez Nonfiction Finalist

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Justin Torres, Sarah Manguso, Paul Lisicky, Eula Biss, Elizabeth McCracken, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Aminatta Forna, Milan Kundera, Sabrina Orah Mark, Elena Ferrante, Eckhart Tolle, Ursula Le Guin, Jennifer Chang, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, and many more.
What I'm reading now: 
A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Mixed-Race
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, Italian, Spanish
Born in: 
Rome, RM
Italy
Roma
Raised in: 
Puerto Cabello, G
Venezuela
Carabobo
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Last update: Dec 13, 2025