Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (born in Rio Grande Valley) is an American poet.

Villarreal reading for Franklin and Marshall College in 2021

In 2019, she won a Whiting Award[1] for poetry and was a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist.[2]

She is a CantoMundo Fellow and is pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.[3][4][5] She was a mentor for PEN Emerging Voices 2020.

Her work has appeared in several magazines like The Rumpus, The Boston Review,[6] poetry magazine,[7] pinwheel,[8] wanderer poetry,[9] and MLK50.[10]

Works
  • Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series, 2017) ISBN 9781934819654

References
  1. "Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  2. "Building New Traditions: A Conversation with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". Tufts Poetry Awards. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  3. "Vanessa Angélica Villarreal | College of Arts & Sciences". www.ashland.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  4. Poets, Academy of American. "About Vanessa Angélica Villarreal | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  5. Foundation, Poetry (2021-02-11). "Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  6. Review, Boston (2018-04-28). "Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". Boston Review. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  7. Foundation, Poetry (2021-02-12). "f = [(root) (future)] by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". Poetry Magazine. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  8. "Two Poems - Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". Pinwheel. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  9. "from BEAST MERIDIAN, by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal". The Wanderer. 2016-11-13. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  10. Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica (2020-10-15). "The shared Black-Latinx struggle calls for solidarity". MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Retrieved 2021-02-12.


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