Professional Summary
Felicia Zamora (she/her) is a poet, educator, and editor. She is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and two chapbooks including, Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2025), Quotient (Tinderbox Editions, 2022), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 2021) and the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, Body of Render, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award (Red Hen Press, 2020), Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press),and Of Form & Gather, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press). She’s received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, and Tin House. She won the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from The Georgia Review, the 2020 C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and a Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2022 and 2024. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Ecotone, Georgia Review, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Orion, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, West Branch, and others. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and poetry editor for the Colorado Review.
Education
Master of Fine Arts: Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, 2012 (Poetry)
Bachelor of Arts: Iowa State University Ames, IA, 2001 (Communication Studies with a minor in English)
Publications
Published Books
(2022. ) Quotient . Tinderbox Editions
(2020. ) Body of Render . Winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award , Red Hen Press
(2018. ) Instrument of Gaps . Slope Editions
(2018. ) & in Open, Marvel . Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions
(2017. ) Of Form & Gather . Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize , University of Notre Dame Press
(2021. ) I Always Carry My Bones .University of Iowa Press, Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize
Honors and Awards
2022 Ragdale Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation
2019 CantoMundo Fellowship
2019 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize, Red Hen Press
2019 Wabash Prize for Poetry, Sycamore Review
2018 Moth Magazine Writers Residency
2017 Poet Laureate, Fort Collins, CO Recognition Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House
2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Institute for Latino Studies & University of Notre Dame Press, University of Notre Dame
2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, Verse
2012 Noepe Center Writer's Residency Fellowship, Martha's Vineyard
2021 PLAYA Artist Residency
2021 William C. Boyce Award for Teaching Excellence in English for tenure-track faculty
2020 Iowa Poetry Prize, University of Iowa Press
2021 Ohio Pre-trail and Racial Justice Grant Recipient, funded by the national Art for Justice Fund
2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from The Georgia Review
2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry
2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
Courses Taught
ENGL3049 Creative Writing and Social Change
ENGL7087 Innovative Forms
ENGL5115 Hybrid Forms Capstone
ENGL7017 Graduate Poetry Workshop
ENGL3079 Creative Writing and the Environment
ENGL3104 Poetic Justice: Exploring Agency, Ownership, and Responsibility in Performing Narrative (Co-Taught)
Contact Information
110C Arts & Sciences
Phone: 513-556-6728