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Felicia Zamora is an American poet, writer, and editor. She has a Master in Fine Arts from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Arts at Iowa State University[1]. Zamora is an accociate professor of poetry at University of Cincinnati, an associate poetry editor at the Colorado Review[2][3], and a contributing editor for West Branch[4].
Career
[edit]Her poetry has been published in Poem-A-Day, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, Orion, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, West Branch[5], and others. As of 2019, she was the Education Programs Manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University[6].
Publications
[edit]- Of Form & Gather (2017). Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, University of Notre Dame Press[2]
- Instrument of Gaps (2018). Slope Editions
- & in Open, Marvel (2018). Parlor Press
- Body of Render (2020). Winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award, Red Hen Press
- I Always Carry My Bones (2021). University of Iowa Press, Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize
- Quotient(2022). Tinderbox Editions
- Interstitial Archaeology (2025), Wisconsin Poetry Series[1]
- Murmuration Archives (2026), Noemi Press[7]
Awards and recognition
[edit]- 2012 Noepe Center Writer's Residency Fellowship, Martha's Vineyard
- 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, Verse [2]
- 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Institute for Latino Studies & University of Notre Dame Press, University of Notre Dame
- 2017 Poet Laureate, Fort Collins, CO Recognition Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House
- 2018 Moth Magazine Writers Residency
- 2019 CantoMundo Fellowship
- 2019 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize, Red Hen Press
- 2019 Wabash Prize for Poetry, Sycamore Review
- 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize, University of Iowa Press
- 2020 C. P. Cavafy Prize, Poetry International[8]
- 2021 PLAYA Artist Residency
- 2021 William C. Boyce Award for Teaching Excellence in English for tenure-track faculty
- 2021 Ohio Pre-trail and Racial Justice Grant Recipient, funded by the national Art for Justice Fund
- 2022 Ragdale Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation
- 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from The Georgia Review
- 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry
- 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award[1]
Personal life
[edit]She got an MFA In creative writing (Poetry) at Colorado State University, and much of her family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, despite not living in Colorado previously[9]. In 2017, she moved to Arizona to take the role of the Education Programs Manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University[10].
In an interview with the Colorado Review, Zamora described her poetry as "Evolving. Permeable. Gorging." In this interview, she detailed that there were multiple factors that made her carrer in writing unlikely, including being a slow reader as a child, racism, and not seeing reprisentation of Mexican, Latinx, or BIPOC writers in books through k-12 school[11]. She took up intentional writing around 2005[6]. Some of the poets that have had the most influence on her are Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Tommy Pico[12]. She enjoys horror movies[6][12], and does horror-movie marathons with her siblings in October[10].
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Felicia Zamora Assoc Professor". University of Cincinnati research directory. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Felicia Zamora". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Felicia Zamora". Poets.org. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ "FELICIA ZAMORA". The American Poetry Review. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ "Felicia Zamora". Poets & Writers. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Contributor Spotlight: Felicia Zamora". Bellingham Review. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ Zamora, Felicia. "Summoning Huixtocihuatl at My Annual Physical". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Cavafy Prize". Poetry International. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ "Alumna Profile: Felicia Zamora". Colorado State University English. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b Kaylor, Brennen; Pagliari, Nicole (27 September 2023). "A Warm Welcome to Felicia Zamora, Our Newest Poetry Editor!". Colorado State University center for literary publishing. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ Zamora, Felicia. "On "Beautiful Fault"". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Felicia Zamora on The Social Distance Reading Series". Green Mountains Review. Retrieved 3 April 2025.