Emma Trelles

Emma Trelles
BornUnited States
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
Alma materFlorida International University
Notable awardsAndrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Website
www.emmatrelles.com

Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, and professor. She served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023.[1][2]

Life

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

  • Tropicalia, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, ISBN 9780268042363
  • Little Spells, CreateSpace, 2008, ISBN 9781440433900

Non-fiction

References

  1. ^ "Emma Trelles to Become City of Santa Barbara's Next Poet Laureate". The Santa Barbara Independent. April 5, 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "Poet Laureate - City of Santa Barbara".
  3. ^ ""An Interview with Emma Trelles" by Steve Almond". The Nervous Breakdown. April 20, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  4. ^ "Campbell McGrath," PoemHunter.com
  5. ^ David Lehman (September 10, 2013). The Best American Poetry 2013. Simon and Schuster. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-1-4767-0814-0.
  6. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA". Poets.org. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  7. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA". Poets.org. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  8. ^ University of Notre Dame Press > Books > Tropicalia
  9. ^ Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize > 2010 Winner
  10. ^ ""Tropicalia by Emma Trelles", review by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish". World Literature Today. September 2011.