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Letisia Cruz [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Saint Petersburg, FL
Florida US
Email: 
lesinfin@gmail.com
Bio: 

Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is the author of Migrations & Other Exiles (Lost Horse Press, 2023), which won the 2022 Idaho Prize for Poetry, and The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books, 2018). She is the recipient of a 2022 artist grant from the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance and was selected as a 2022 Dali Dozen Emerging Artist for her project Rituales: An Exploration of Faith in the Caribbean. Her writing and artwork have appeared in [PANK], Ninth Letter, The Acentos Review, Gulf Stream, Saw Palm, Third Coast, Duende, Moko, 300 Days of Sun, and Black Fox Literary Magazine, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Spanish
Born in: 
Camajuani
Cuba
Raised in: 
Union City, NJ
New Jersey
Website: 
https://www.lesinfin.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Idaho Prize for Poetry 2022

Education: 
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Identifies as: 
Latino/Latina/Latinx

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/letisia_cruz

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/letisia_cruz [2] https://www.lesinfin.com