Emma Trelles
Emma Trelles | |
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| Born | United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Florida International University |
| Notable awards | Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize |
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Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, and professor. She served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023.[1][2]
Life
[edit | edit source]Trelles earned an MFA from Florida International University in the 1990s, where she was mentored by the poet Campbell McGrath and fiction writer John Dufresne.[3][4] Trelles is a professor of composition and creative writing at Santa Barbara City College.
A contributor to the Best American Poetry blog, Trelles's poetry and prose have been anthologized in Ocho, Gulf Stream, Verse Daily, MiPOesias Magazine, The Rumpus and Tigertail: A South Florida Annual. Her journalism has been featured in the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel. Her work appeared in Best American Poetry 2013.[5] She is series editor for the Alta California Chapbook Series published by Gunpowder Press.[6] In 2022, Trelles was name an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.[7]
Trelles has been the recipient of fellowships from the CantoMundo and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Her book Tropicalia,[8] was selected by Silvia Curbelo for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[9] Tropicalia takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same name.[10]
Works
[edit | edit source]- Tropicalia, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Little Spells, CreateSpace, 2008, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Non-fiction
[edit | edit source]- Miami, Longstreet, 2001, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
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- ^ Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize > 2010 Winner
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Author website
- Trelles interviewed with Grace Cavalieri on the Library of Congress' Poet and the Poem program.
- Review of Tropicalia at Post No Ills Magazine
- Best American Poetry Blog
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