Emma Trelles

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.[3][4] 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.[5]

Trelles has been the recipient of fellowships from the CantoMundo and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Her book Tropicalia,[6] was selected by Silvia Curbelo for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[7] Tropicalia takes its title from the 1960s Brazilian arts movement of the same name.[8]

• Tropicalia, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, ISBN 9780268042363
• Little Spells, CreateSpace, 2008, ISBN 9781440433900

• Author website
• Trelles interviewed with Grace Cavalieri on the Library of Congress' Poet and the Poem program.
• Review of Tropicalia at Post No Ills Magazine
• Best American Poetry Blog