Felicia Zamora February 4, 2027

Location: Escondido Theater, SUB at 5:00 PM

Felicia Zamora is the author of eight books of poetry including Murmuration Archives (Akrilica Series, Noemi Press 2026), Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin Poetry Series 2025), I Always Carry My Bones (2021), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award in poetry, and Body of Render (2020), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award. She has won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, C.P. Cavafy Prize, Tomaž Šalamun Prize, Wabash Prize, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, as well as received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, Tin House, and Yaddo. Her writing appears in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Brevity, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, Orion, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. She's been poetry faculty for Tin House, Kenyon Review's Residential Workshops, Orion's Environmental Workshops, and the Sewanee Writer's Conference. She is a poetry editor for Colorado Review, a contributing editor for West Branch, and a professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati where she was a 2025-2026 Taft Research Center Fellow.