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."Campbell McGrath," PoemHunter.com 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,University of Notre Dame Press > Books > Tropicalia was selected by Silvia Curbelo for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize > 2010 Winner Tropicalia takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same name.
Works Tropicalia, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, Little Spells, CreateSpace, 2008,
Non-fiction Miami, Longstreet, 2001,
References
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