Carmen Calatayud

Carmen Calatayud was born in the U.S to immigrant war survivors, a Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book In the Company of Spirits was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and was an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. Her poetry has appeared in print and online in journals such as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Virginia Quarterly Review and Verse Daily, and numerous anthologies. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. Carmen is a somatic psychotherapist and DC native who lives in San Antonio, Texas.