{{Short description|American poet}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Emma Trelles | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Emma Trelles 2160970.JPG | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = United States | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Poet | language = English | education = | alma_mater = Florida International University | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize | signature = | signature_alt = | module = | website = {{url|www.emmatrelles.com}} | portaldisp = }}
'''Emma Trelles''' is a Latina poet, writer, and professor. She served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-04-05 |title=Emma Trelles to Become City of Santa Barbara's Next Poet Laureate |url=https://www.independent.com/2021/04/05/emma-trelles-to-become-city-of-santa-barbaras-next-poet-laureate/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbac.ca.gov/poet-laureate|title = Poet Laureate - City of Santa Barbara}}</ref>
==Life== Trelles earned an MFA from Florida International University in the 1990s, where she was mentored by the poet Campbell McGrath and fiction writer John Dufresne.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/salmond/2011/04/an-interview-with-emma-trelles/ |title="An Interview with Emma Trelles" by Steve Almond |date=April 20, 2011 |publisher=The Nervous Breakdown |accessdate=May 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.poemhunter.com/campbell-mcgrath/biography/ "Campbell McGrath," PoemHunter.com]</ref> Trelles is a professor of composition and creative writing at Santa Barbara City College.
A contributor to the Best American Poetry blog, Trelles's poetry and prose have been anthologized in ''Ocho'', ''Gulf Stream'', ''Verse Daily'', ''MiPOesias Magazine'', ''The Rumpus'' and ''Tigertail: A South Florida Annual''. Her journalism has been featured in the ''Miami Herald'' and the ''Sun-Sentinel.'' Her work appeared in ''Best American Poetry 2013''.<ref name="Lehman2013">{{cite book|author=David Lehman|title=The Best American Poetry 2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVwLgSnhFI4C&pg=PT162|date=10 September 2013|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4767-0814-0|pages=162–}}</ref> She is series editor for the Alta California Chapbook Series published by Gunpowder Press.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA |url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/winner/prizes/academy-american-poets-laureate-fellowships/poet-laureate-65 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Poets.org |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, Trelles was name an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA |url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/winner/prizes/academy-american-poets-laureate-fellowships/poet-laureate-65 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Poets.org |language=en}}</ref>
Trelles has been the recipient of fellowships from the CantoMundo and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Her book ''Tropicalia'',<ref>[http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01471 University of Notre Dame Press > Books > ''Tropicalia'']</ref> was selected by Silvia Curbelo for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.<ref>[http://www.nd.edu/~latino/poetry_prize/winner10.htm Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize > 2010 Winner]</ref> ''Tropicalia'' takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same name.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldliteraturetoday.com/2011/september/tropicalia-emma-trelles |title="Tropicalia by Emma Trelles", review by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish |date= September 2011 |publisher=World Literature Today}}</ref>
==Works== *''Tropicalia'', University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, {{ISBN|9780268042363}} *''Little Spells'', CreateSpace, 2008, {{ISBN|9781440433900}}
===Non-fiction=== *''Miami'', Longstreet, 2001, {{ISBN|9781563525193}}
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120427022625/http://emmatrelles.com/ Author website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120830191154/http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem2.html Trelles interviewed with] Grace Cavalieri on the Library of Congress' ''Poet and the Poem'' program. * [http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=268 Review of ''Tropicalia'' at Post No Ills Magazine] * [http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/ Best American Poetry Blog]
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