Steven Sanchez

Poet

Fresno, CA

California US

Email:

stevensanchez.booking@gmail.com

Website:

stevensanchezpoetry.com

Twitter/X:

@Steven_Sanchez

Author's Bio

Steven Sanchez is the author of Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications, 2018), chosen by Mark Doty for the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, Lambda Literary Fellow, and the winner of the inaugural Federico García Lorca Poetry Prize for an emerging Latinx poet. His poems have appeared in journals that include Agni, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, North American Review, and Poet Lore.

Education:

Fresno State MFA

Writers Retreats:

Tin House Summer Workshop

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications, 2018)

Chapbook:

Photographs of Our Shadows (Agape Editions, 2017)

Journals:

AGNI

American Poetry Review

Assaracus

Cider Press Review

Cossack Review

Crab Creek Review

Foothill

Glass: A Journal of Poetry

North American Review

RE:AL

Rogue Agent

Tahoma Literary Review

The Texas Review

Tinderbox

Wildness

Winter Tangerine Review

Word Riot

Prizes won:

2013 Lambda Literary Fellowship; 2016 CantoMundo Fellowship; 2016 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award (Marsh Hawk Press, Selected by Mark Doty); García Lorca Poetry Prize for an Emerging Latinx Poet (selected by Ruben Quesada); Finalist, Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press); Finalist, Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry (Four Way Books); Editors' List, Brutal Nation Prize for Writers of Color (The Blueshift Journal); Semi-Finalist, Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award (Agape Editions)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Latino/Latina/Latinx

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Hanford

Raised in:

Hanford, CA

California

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Last update: May 01, 2020