On July 12, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022–2023. Limón will take up her duties in the fall, opening the library’s annual literary season on September 29 with a reading of her work in LC’s Coolidge Auditorium. “Ada Limón is a poet who connects,” Hayden said in a statement. “Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.” Limón was born in Sonoma, California, in 1976 and is of Mexican ancestry. She is the author of six poetry collections, which have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and have been finalists for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award. She is host of The Slowdown podcast.