Kristin Naca
Appearance
Kristin Naca (born Washington, D.C.) is a Latina and Fillipina American poet, as well as a Santera in the religion of Regla Ocha.
Life
Naca grew up in northern Virginia.[1] She graduated from University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh with an M.F.A.,[2] and from University of Nebraska in 2008, with a Ph.D.
Her poems have appeared in Poetry,[3] ART PAPERS[4] Bloom, Harpur Palate,[5] Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner,[6] Octopus Magazine,[7] Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rio Grande Review.
She has been a member of the Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, since 2002.
She served as Writer In Residence with Minnesota Prison Writing Workshops.[8] She lives in Minneapolis.[9]
Awards
- mtvU National Poetry Series Prize. selected by Yusef Komunyakaa[10]
- 2008 National Poetry Series
- Lannan Residency Fellowship
- Bread Loaf Fellowship
- Hedgebrook writers in residence program on Whidbey Island[11]
Works
- "Baptism", The Blind Chatelaine's Keys
- "One Foot". Prairie Schooner. Spring 2009.
- Bird Eating Bird. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-178234-3.
References
- ^ http://www.giststreet.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=50
- ^ http://www.english.pitt.edu/graduate/mfa/graduateBooks.html
- ^ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/242320
- ^ Iyawo. "Life Altars".
- ^ http://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/hpvol71.html
- ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v083/83.1.naca.html
- ^ http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue11/naca.htm
- ^ http://www.mnprisonwriting.org/
- ^ http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue11/contributors_notes.htm
- ^ http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/poetry-reading-randall-mann-kristin-naca-and-debbie-yee-at-sfpl-071109/
- ^ http://www.ravenchronicles.org/raven/rvback/issues/0397/cont0397.htm