Manteca! an Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets by Melissa Castillo Planas

LARISSA SHMAILO is a poet, novelist, translator, editor, and writing coach. She is currently teaching online classes for Poetry Barn, Poetry School UK, and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. In 2018 she completed her three years as one of the final judges for the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Awards in Poetry, and in 2019, her term for the Georgia Poetry Circuit. While attending AUSB’s Writing and Contemporary Media program, Elena is writing in new genres and completing a book of essays called Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art, Film, & Desire.Įlena is a freelance lecturer, private editor, Poetry Consultant & Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and the Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club. Recent work can be found in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Verse Daily, BOMB, Volt, Narrative, Plume, Kyoto Journal, Poetry International, Adroit Journal, LARB, and New American Writing. She is listed in the Directory of Poets & Writers Magazine, and is a member of the International Association of Professional Writers & Editors.Ī Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry recipient, Elena Karina Byrne is the author of five books including the forthcoming If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn, 2021) and No, Don’t (What Books Press, 2020). She serves as an International Art Ambassador.

She is the recipient of the 2020 International Artist of the Year Award, the 2020 Global Arts & Humanities Award, 2020 Global Arts & Literary Culture Award, and was awarded the 2020 Best Screenplay for 'The Loner'. Her poetry, writings, and art has been used for academic and ministry studies across the US and abroad. She is the “Poet Laureate” of Fire Eagle Ministries. Her poetry, writings, and visual art has been published in over 1,500 publications worldwide and in over 8 countries. She is the editor and publisher of Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal. She has Native American/Cherokee Indian background and is a Sequoyah-Cherokee translator. MILWEE is an International award-winning and published synesthesia artist (paints to music), poetess, writer, screenwriter, book cover art designer, and illustrator from Southside, Alabama. Her Awards include The Penn Review Poetry Prize, the Tom Howard Prize from Winning Writers, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and more.

Her work has been featured by PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and has also appeared in periodicals such as POETRY, Kenyon Review, Psychology Today, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, and New England Review. MELISSA STUDDARD is the author of the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and the poetry chapbook Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings.

Manteca! an Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets by Melissa Castillo Planas