M. Garcia Teutsch

M. Garcia Teutsch, MA, MFA, is an award-winning poet and professor. Her work merges the lyric intensity of poetry with the visual language of cinema and stage. Her most recent collection, What She Saw in the Lotería Cards, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2025. In 2023 she wrote and directed two one act plays, The Revolution Will Have its Sky: a poem in one act; and What She Saw in the Loteria Cards, both in Berlin, Germany, and loosely based upon the eponymous poetry collections. Her newest cinepoem, The Blue Whale of Madness (2025) was a semi-finalist at international film festivals in Brussels, Austin and Palermo. The Swallows of America was published by Dancing Girl Press in the Fall of 2021. Heather McHugh chose her poetry collection, The Revolution Will Have its Sky, as the winner of the Minerva Rising chapbook competition. Maria is a poet, playwright, filmmaker, and educator. She has published over 25 book/journals of poetry as editor-in-chief of the Homestead Review, published by Hartnell College in Salinas, and Ping-Pong journal of art and literature, published by the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. She is currently working on an operetta entitled, The Swans of Berlin which premieres at Galerie Z22 in Berlin, Germany on November 7th and 8th, 2025.