Cintia Santana teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish, and literary translation courses at Stanford University. Born in Madrid, Spain, she is the author of Forth and Back: Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975-1995). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, RHINO, Spillway, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. Her poem, “Qasida of Grief,” was selected as the winner of the Sycamore Review’s 2013 Wabash Prize by C.D. Wright.

Publications

• Forth and Back: Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975-1995) , Bucknell University Press (2013)

Awards

• Wabash Prize for Poetry (2013)

Employment

• Senior Lecturer at Stanford University (September 2007 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College (1996)
• Doctoral Degree in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (2004)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Poetry