Yesenia Montilla was born and raised in New York City. A 2014

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 ...

Fellow, her poetry has appeared in the chapbook for the Crowns of Your Head, as well as the literary journals ''The Gulf Coast,

Prairie Schooner ''Prairie Schooner'' is a literary magazine published quarterly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with the cooperation of UNL's English Department and the University of Nebraska Press. It is based in Lincoln, Nebraska and was first publish ...

, Pittsburgh Poetry Review'', and others.

Career

Montilla received a BA from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

and an MFA from

Drew University Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey. Drew has been nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of its wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three scho ...

in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.

Publications

''The Pink Box,'' Aquarius Press, 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montilla, Yesenia Living people 21st-century American poets Year of birth missing (living people) American women poets 21st-century American women writers Writers from New York City Poets from New York (state) Hunter College alumni Drew University alumni