| Emma Trelles | |
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| Born | United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Florida International University |
| Notable awards | Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize |
| Website | |
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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.
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. 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. She is series editor for the Alta California Chapbook Series published by Gunpowder Press. In 2022, Trelles was name an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
Trelles has been the recipient of fellowships from the CantoMundo and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Her book Tropicalia, was selected by Silvia Curbelo for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Tropicalia takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same name.
Works
- Tropicalia, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, ISBN 9780268042363
- Little Spells, CreateSpace, 2008, ISBN 9781440433900
Non-fiction
- Miami, Longstreet, 2001, ISBN 9781563525193
References
- "Emma Trelles to Become City of Santa Barbara's Next Poet Laureate". The Santa Barbara Independent. April 5, 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
- "Poet Laureate - City of Santa Barbara".
- ""An Interview with Emma Trelles" by Steve Almond". The Nervous Breakdown. April 20, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- "Campbell McGrath," PoemHunter.com
- David Lehman (September 10, 2013). The Best American Poetry 2013. Simon and Schuster. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-1-4767-0814-0.
- Poets, Academy of American. "Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA". Poets.org. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
- Poets, Academy of American. "Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA". Poets.org. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
- University of Notre Dame Press > Books > Tropicalia
- Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize > 2010 Winner
- ""Tropicalia by Emma Trelles", review by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish". World Literature Today. September 2011.
External links
- 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
- 20th-century American poets
- 21st-century American poets
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Living people
- American women journalists
- American women poets
- American writers of Cuban descent
- Hispanic and Latino American poets
- Hispanic and Latino American women journalists
- Poets from Florida
- Journalists from Florida