About me
Cintia Santana is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver Medal, and was short-listed for the 2023 California Independent Booksellers Alliance “Golden Poppy” Award. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, and numerous journals. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Most recently she was selected as a Kenyon Review Peter Taylor fellow in poetry (2025). Santana teaches literary translation, poetry, and fiction workshops in English and Spanish at Stanford University.
