Natalie Scenters-Zapico  is the author of My Perfect Cognate (Copper Canyon Press 2025) Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press 2019), and The Verging Cities (Colorado State University 2015). She has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA with a concentration in poetry from the University of New Mexico. She has won Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a CantoMundo Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.  Her poems can be found in POETRY, Tin House, American Poets, The Believer, The Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and more. She teaches creative writing at the University of South Florida.

Website: nataliescenterszapico.net

Publications

• My Perfect Cognate , Copper Canyon Press (May )
• Lima :: Limón , Copper Canyon Press (May 15, 2019)
• The Verging Cities , Center For Literary Publishing at Colorado State University (April 15, 2015)

Awards

• Yale University's Windham-Campbell Award(2021)
• Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship(2018)
• Lannan Literary Fellowship(2017)
• PEN American/ Joyce Osterweil Award(2017)
• Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award(2016)
• National Association for Chicana/o Studies Tejas FOCO Award(2016)
• Utah Book Award(2017)

Employment

• Lecturer at University of Nebraska--Lincoln (August 2017 - May 2018)
• Professor of Literature at Bennington College (August 2018 - May 2019)
• Professor at University of Puget Sound (August 2019 - )
• Assistant Professor at University of South Florida (August 2020 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from University of Texas at El Paso (December 2009)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of New Mexico (May 2013)

Genres of Interest

Poetry