Stella Santamaria

Poet

US

Author's Bio

When AI Writes Our Stories, A Conversation about AI with guest speakers (law enforcement, cybersecurity, writers)   Facilitator and Co-Moderator, Miami Dade College, Spring, March 19th, 2024

Philosophy in the Anthropocene, Classical Greek Philosophy and Sustainability in the 21st century, Featuring the philosophy of Epicurus, Eco-poetry, Miami Dade College, Spring, March 12, 2024

Best of the Net Nominee, on a kayak in this miami bedroom, Rising Phoenix Review

Faculty Fellowship, XM Sci-Fi Institute Summer 2023, FIU Science & Fiction Lab

Arts & Letters, Poetry Slam Miami Dade College, Spring 2024, April 5th, 2023

how to speak: miami at TWILIGHT, on a kayak in this miami bedroom, The Rising Phoenix Review  2023

at the local chain coffee shop over decaf, too late in the day for another expresso, Odes to Our Undoing Writers Reflecting on Crisis by Risk Press 2022

The Miami Cemetery, The Islandia Journal   Issue Four  2022                                                                                                     
                                                                    California Silence, Finalist for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize by Letras Latinas Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame 2022

Poem (Zip Ode) WLRN/ O, Miami Zip Ode Project, O, Miami Poetry Festival 2022

manuscript California Silence, semi-finalist for the 2021 lighthouse poetry series by Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Community of Writers,  Ancinas Scholarship 2021

Under the Volcano,  Sandra Cisneros Fellow  2021

manuscript California Silence, Finalist for the 2020 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize

MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary's College of California 

 recipient of the School of Liberal Arts Dean's Award from (SMC) Saint Mary's College of California

Hedgebrook Bridging Writing Residencies, California, 2019 & 2018

Spoken Word

The Lab in San Francisco 

Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City 

Books & Books in Coral Gables

Fiction

Screenplays & projects Hollywood, California (Los Angeles) 2017-2020

Documentary 

Interviewed for CNN & HBO Films documentary Latino in America 

Editor & Contributor

Written Here and There 2021 Poetry Review 

(2021- 2022)

Reader & Contributor

(2018-2020)

Mary: A Journal of New Writing 

 

 

Education: 
Saint Mary’s College of California MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Community of Writers
Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Written Here and There 2021: The Community of Writers Poetry Review (Lulu Press, 2021)
Journals:
Acentos Review
,
Cathexis Northwest Press
,
Courtship of Winds
,
Furious Gazelle
,
Juked
,
Mary
,
Mayday Magazine
,
Nine Mile Art & Literary Magazine
,
Pennsylvania English
,
Rising Phoenix Review
,
The Rumpus
,
The Brooklyn Review
,
The Stray Branch
Prizes won: 

Nominated for Best of the Net, "on a kayak in this miami bedroom" by Rising Phoenix Review 

XM Sci-Fi  Institute Summer 2023 Faculty Fellow, Florida International University, FIU Science & Fiction Lab

California Silence, Finalist for the 10th edition Andres Montoya Poetry Prize by Letras Latinas Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame 2022

"Ode to Your Zip Code," Spotlight poem for Week 1, WLRN/ O, Miami Zip Ode Project, O, Miami Poetry Festival 2022

California Silence, a semi-finalist for the 2021 lighthouse poetry series by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center 

The Ancinas Family Scholarship from the Community of Writers 2021

The Sandra Cisneros Fellowship at Under the Volcano (2021)

California Silence, Finalist for the 2020 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize

School of Liberal Arts (SOLA) Dean's Award 2020 from Saint Mary's College of California

 

 

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder, Cyrus Cassells, Sandra Cisneros, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Mary Shelley, Maya Angelou, Rebecca Yarros, Gerald Stern, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Toni Morrison, Jane Gregory, Sara Mumolo, Madeline Miller, Lisa Lopez Smith, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell, Andre Breton, John Ashbery, Jose Marti, Mary Volmer, Tanya Castro, Michael Dubon, Scott Brennan, Robert Hass, Vanessa Angelica Villareal
What I'm reading now: 
Poets & Writers Magazine by , A House of My Own by Sandra Cisneros, In A Few Minutes Before Later by Brenda Hillman, MORE THAN PEACE AND CYPRESSES by Cyrus Cassells, Why Poetry? by Matthew Zapruder, FENCE by Poets and The Gods spring 2024, Heaven is All Goodbyes by Tongo Eisen-Martin, Yeah No by Jane Gregory, Islandia Journal by Issue Number Four, Odes to Our Undoing Writers Reflecting on Crisis by Anthology , Rising Phoenix Review by journal online, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller , Teaching with AI by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American, Cuban American, Hispanic, Latino/Latina/Latinx, Other
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English, Spanish
Born in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
Raised in: 
Miami, FL
Florida
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Last update: Jan 30, 2025