Carmen Calatayud

Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her second  poetry book This Tangled Body was published by FlowerSong Press, in conjunction with Letras Latinas, in 2024. Her book In the Company of Spirits (Press 53, 2012) was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, The Banyan Review, Cutthroat, OyeDrum, Poet Lore, Rogue Agent, Tahoma Literary Journal and Verse Daily. Her work appears in several anthologies, including Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Press, 2016) and Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press, 2016). She is a Larry Neal Award Winner, a Best of La Bloga winner, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Calatayud is a DC area native who lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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Book: This Tangled Body

Book: In the Company of Spirits

Website: carmencalatayud.com (in progress)