Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, professor, and current poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California.

Life

Trelles earned an MFA from

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in the 1990s, where she was mentored by the poet

Campbell McGrath Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is an American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including ''Seven Notebooks'' (Ecco Press, 2008), Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), and In the Kingdom ...

and fiction writer

John Dufresne John Dufresne (born January 30, 1948) is an American author of French Canadian descent born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester State College in 1970 and the University of Arkansas in 1984. He is a professor in the Master of F ...

. Trelles is a professor of composition and creative writing at

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. A contributor to the

Best American Poetry ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...

blog, Trelles's poetry and prose have been anthologized in ''Ocho'', ''

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'', ''Verse Daily'', ''MiPOesias Magazine'', ''The Rumpus'' and ''Tigertail: A South Florida Annual''. Her journalism has been featured in the ''

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'' and the ''

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.'' Her work appeared in ''Best American Poetry 2013''. Trelles has been the recipient of fellowships from the

CantoMundo CantoMundo is an American literary organization founded in 2009 to support Latino poets and poetry. It hosts an annual poetry workshop dedicated to the creation, documentation, and critical analysis of Latinx poetry. History CantoMundo was founded ...

and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Her book ''Tropicalia'', was selected by

Silvia Curbelo Silvia Curbelo is a Cuban-born, American poet and writer. Career She is the author of four collections of poetry including ''Falling Landscape'' (Anhinga Press, 2015) ''Ambush'' (Main Street Rag, 2004), ''The Secret History of Water'' (Anhinga ...

for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. ''Tropicalia'' takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same

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Works

*''Tropicalia'', University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, *''Little Spells'', CreateSpace, 2008,

Non-fiction

*''Miami'', Longstreet, 2001,

References

External links

Author website

Grace Cavalieri Grace Cavalieri is an American poet, playwright, and radio host of the Library of Congress program '' The Poet and the Poem''. In 2019, she was appointed the tenth Poet Laureate of Maryland. Education * BS - Education: English and History, The ...

on the

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' ''Poet and the Poem'' program.
Review of ''Tropicalia'' at Post No Ills Magazine

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