Sofia M. Starnes

Author's Bio

Sofia Starnes was born in Manila and educated in Madrid. She arrived in the United States in 1986 and became a US citizen in 1989. Sofia Starnes writes according to this dictum: "We write for ourselves and for a stranger". That stranger—the sought-after reader—would be someone for whom the poet's specific experience, the kernel of the poem, is far less important than the reader's own experience, awakened through a connection with the emotional truth of each poem. In this sense, the poem renews itself in the course of each acquisition."

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Love and the Afterlife (Franciscan University Press, 2012), Fully Into Ashes (Wings Press, 2011), Corpus Homini: A Poem for Single Flesh (Wings Press, 2009), A Commerce of Moments (Pavement Saw Press, 2002), The Soul's Landscape (Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001)

Anthologies:

Best of the Decade, 2007 (Hawai'i Pacific Review, 2007), Poetry Society of Virginia 80th Anniversary Anthology (Poetry Society of Virginia, 2003), The Poet's Domain (Road Publishing, 1995)

Journals:

Christianity & Literature, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Laurel Review, Marlboro Review, Notre Dame Review, Southern Poetry Review

Prizes:

Sofia Starnes is the recipient of numerous poetry awards: the Aldrich Poetry Prize, the Transcontinental Poetry Prize (Editor's Choice), The Whitebird Poetry Series Prize, the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Award, the Marlboro Poetry Award (Editor's Choice), and the Christianity and Literature Poetry Prize, among others. On the year of its publication, A Commerce of Moments was named Poetry Honor Book in the Library of Virginia Literary Awards Competition. Sofia also has received a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and a Pushcart nomination, inter alia. Her work has been selected for the Best of the Decade Issue of the Hawai'i Pacific Review. Sofia is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women. She serves as Poetry Editor of The Anglican Theological Review. (www.anglicantheologicalreview.org)

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Listing last updated: February 21, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Born in:

Manila

Raised in:

Manila and Madrid

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