Emma Trelles

Emma Trelles is a Cuban-American writer, editor, and author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize; her manuscript Courage and the Clock was a finalist and honorable mention for the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. She is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, and the recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council and a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. A current CantoMundo Fellow, her writing and translations have recently appeared in Poetry International; New England Review; Poetry Magazine; and the Academy’s Poem-A-Day series. She is series editor of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, open to Latine poets in the U.S. and published in bilingual editions by Gunpowder Press in partnership with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative of the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame.