Emma Trelles | |
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| Born | United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Florida International University |
| Notable awards | Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize |
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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. [1] [2]
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]