| Emma Trelles | |
| Birth Place: | United States |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Language: | English |
| Alma Mater: | Florida International University |
| Awards: | Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize |
Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, professor, and served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023.[1] [2]
Trelles earned an MFA from Florida International University in the 1990s, where she was mentored by the poet Campbell McGrath and fiction writer John Dufresne.[3] [4] Trelles is a professor of composition and creative writing at Santa Barbara City College.
A contributor to the Best American Poetry blog, Trelles's poetry and prose have been anthologized in Ocho, Gulf Stream, Verse Daily, MiPOesias Magazine, The Rumpus and Tigertail: A South Florida Annual. Her journalism has been featured in the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel. Her work appeared in Best American Poetry 2013.[5] She is series editor for the Alta California Chapbook Series published by Gunpowder Press.[6] In 2022, Trelles was name an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.[7]
Trelles has been the recipient of fellowships from the CantoMundo and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Her book Tropicalia,[8] was selected by Silvia Curbelo for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[9] Tropicalia takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same name.[10]