Felicia Zamora

Felicia Zamora is a poet, educator, and editor currently living in OH. She is the author of six books of poetry including: Quotient (Tinderbox Editions 2022), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press 2021) and winner of the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, Body of Render, winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award (Red Hen Press 2020), Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions 2018), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press 2018), and Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press 2017). She's received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Tin House, Ragdale Foundation, PLAYA, Moth Magazine, and Noepe Center at Martha's Vineyard. She won the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from The Georgia Review, a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the 2020 C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She's also authored two chapbooks and was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, CO. Her poems and essays are found or forthcoming in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, The Georgia Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, The Missouri Review, Orion, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, The Nation, West Branch, and others. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and is the associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review.