Noel Quiñones is a Puerto Rican poet, performer, and community organizer born and raised in the Bronx. He travels the country giving his talk "Beyond the Black/White Binary: The Inner Ethnic Conflict of Latinidad", seeking to explore the challenges that face Latinx people as well as the false narratives they carry in 21st century America.

As a writer he has received fellowships from CantoMundo, SAFTA (Sundress Academy for the Arts), the Poetry Foundation, Candor Arts, the Watering Hole, and LongLeaf Writer's Conference; he was also chosen as an Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House in 2015. His work is published in POETRY, the Latin American Review, Rattle, Kweli Journal, Hot Metal Bridge & elsewhere. In addition, his poetry has been included in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT Anthology, Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation, the Best of Kweli Journal Anthology, and ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets.

As a performer he has featured with The Ford Foundation, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, The Poetry Gods, and BronxNet Television as well as performed at Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Festival, La Casita; the Nuyorican Poets Café, Write About Now - Houston, TX, Jawdance - London, and the Honolulu Museum of Art. Noel has been featured at numerous colleges, universities, and K-12 schools across the country, such as Harvard University, American University, and King's College London, in addition to various cultural art spaces, non-profit organizations, and conferences, having been the Keynote Speaker at the first NYC Latinx Youth Conference, 2017. He was commissioned by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum that same year to compose a poem honoring those who passed when the Towers fell, and most recently by UnidosUS to create new work uplifting the Latinx community during COVID. His performances have been showcased on Huffington Post, Vibe, Latina Magazine, Medium, TIDAL Music, Remezcla, Mitú & elsewhere.