Natalia Treviño

Born in Mexico, Natalia Treviño is the author of VirginX (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Lavando La Dirty Laundry (Mongrel Empire Press, 2014). She works as a Professor of English at Northwest Vista College and is a Macondista. She graduated from The University of Texas at San Antonio with her B.A. and M.A. in English, and she completed her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her awards include the Alfredo Cisneros de Moral Award, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Wendy Barker Creative Writing Award, the San Antonio Arts Foundation Literary Prize, the Menada Literary Award from Ditet e Naimet Poetry Festival in Macedonia, and an Ambroggio Prize for co-translation from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry appears in journals including Sugar House Review, Infrarrealista Review, Acentos Review, Plume, POETRY, Presence: a Journal of Catholic Poetry and others. Her work also appears in Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers (Curbstone Press), Complex Allegiances: Constellations of Immigration (Wising Up Press), RiverSedge, and Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press). Her first novel is forthcoming from Arte Público Press.