Natalie Scenters-Zapico (photo by John Markadak).
A poetry reading by guest writer Natalie Scenters-Zapico will be hosted on campus on Thursday, Nov. 5.
The event is at 7 p.m. in the Marion Art Gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center, is free and the public is invited to attend.
Ms. Scenters-Zapico is the author of three collections of poetry, “My Perfect Cognate,” “Lima :: Limón” and “The Verging Cities.” In addition, she is the winner of the PEN/America Joyce Osterweil Award, the GLCA New Writer's Award and the Utah Book Award. Her books have been reviewed widely in publications and broadcasts including The New Yorker, National Public Radio, The Washington Post and Publisher's Weekly.
Scenters-Zapico’s latest poems have been published or are forthcoming in publications such as The Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry 2024 and more.
Today, Scenters-Zapico teaches in the undergraduate and MFA creative writing programs at the University of South Florida, where she won a 2022 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award and a 2023-2024 McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship. She is also the Inaugural Director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library at USF.
The program is funded by the Department of English’s Mary Louise White Fund established through the Fredonia College Foundation.
