Rosa Alcalá

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Born in Paterson, NJ to Spanish immigrants, Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator currently living in El Paso, TX. She is the author of three books of poetry: Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010), The Lust of Unsentimental Waters (Shearsman Books, 2011), and MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem, 2017). Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them by Stephanie Burt (Harvard UP, 2016); The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, edited by Charles Altieri and Nicholas D. Nace  (Northwestern UP, 2017); and American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, edited by Claudia Rankine and Michael Dowdy (Wesleyan UP, 2018). Her work as a translator has focused on contemporary Latin American women poets living in the U.S. Recent publications include two edited volumes: Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), and Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems(Kelsey Street Press, 2018).  She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, and finalist for a PEN Translation Award. She teaches in the Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2019

Best American Poetry 2021

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