Natalie Scenters-Zapico
“I’ve never once planned a poem, to be honest, because it’s so fun to go with it, so fun to have it take you places. And it’s so associative in my mind, too. You use one word and it immediately leads me into another, and I love following that train of thought.”
“In these poems, the border is a powerful metaphor, but it is never merely trope; it is actual, political, damaging.”
“The stakes, in Scenters-Zapico’s poems, are that serious: her astonishing verbal crossings reveal a mind as richly self-divided as any you will find.”
“This work represents social disruption in a way that only the most moving poetry can do… Lima :: Limón is filled with strong poems that disrupt binary structures and exemplify how poetry can move beyond aesthetic representation of tragedy.”
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of two books of poetry, most recently the widely acclaimed Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for both the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize. It has received critical acclaim from the New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. Her first book The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015) won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Award, NACCS Foco Book Prize, Utah Book Award, and was featured in Poets and Writers, LitHub, and the Los Angeles Times. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary magazines including Best American Poetry 2015, POETRY, Tin House, Kenyon Review, and more. Currently, she holds fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and CantoMundo. She is also a recipient of the 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation
Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas. She currently lives in Tampa with her husband José Ángel Maldonado where they both teach in the Department of English at the University of South Florida.
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