Cintia Santana’s debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award’s Silver Medal, and was short-listed for the 2023 California Independent Booksellers Alliance “Golden Poppy” Award. Santana’s poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, and numerous journals. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Santana teaches literary translation and poetry workshops in Spanish and English at Stanford University.
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Speaker – A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis
