June Sylvester Saraceno

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

PO Box 10772

Truckee, CA 96162

Email:

jsylvestersaraceno@gmail.com

Phone:

775-881-7514

Bio:

June Sylvester Saraceno is the author of three poetry collections, The Girl From Yesterday (forthcoming in 2020 from Cherry Grove Press), of Dirt and Tar (Cherry Grove Press), and Altars of Ordinary Light (Plain View Press), as well as a chapbook of prose poems, Mean Girl Trips (Pudding House Publications).

Her debut novel, Feral, North Carolina, 1965 was published in fall 2019 by Southern Fried Karma Press.

She is Humanities and English Department Chair at Sierra Nevada College, Tahoe, where she teaches in the undergraduate and low-residency MFA in creative writing programs. She directs the literary speaker series Writers in the Woods, and is founding editor of the literary journal, the Sierra Nevada Review.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Favorite authors:

Patricia Smith, Sharon Olds, Pablo Neruda, Brian Turner, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lidia Yuknavitch, Peter Makuck, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Gayle Brandeis, Nick Flynn... too many to list.

Twitter:

JuneJuniverse

Born in:

Elizabeth City, NC

North Carolina

Raised in:

Elizabeth City, NC

North Carolina

Website:

http://www.junesaraceno.com [2]

Prizes won:

Southern Fried Karma novel contest, runner-up, awarded publication (2018)
First place: Moonshine Ink Creative Brew (2016)
Moon City Press Fiction Award Finalist (2015)
Twice nominated for Pushcart Prize (2014)
Sierra Artist Grant ($1,000.00) for excellence in Literary Arts (2013)
Awarded the Nazir and Mary Ansari Gold Medal for Distinguished Teaching (2014)
Recipient of two month-long artist residencies at Camac Centre d’Art, France, (2013 and 2014).
Outstanding Teacher of the Humanities Award, Nevada Humanities Council, (2013).
First Place Poetry Prize in Winter Annual Literary Contest, Moonshine Ink, (2013).

Education:

Bowling Green State University

What I'm reading now:

New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland

Writers Retreats:

Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat

Community of Writers

Prefers to work with:

Any