Kristin Naca

Kristin Naca (born Washington, D.C.) is a Latina and Fillipina American poet, and identifies with the religion of Santería. Until 2015 she was an assistant professor of English, teaching literature and creative writing, at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.^[1] She was dismissed as a professor after allegations of a sexual relationship involving a former student came out. Naca sued but the case was ultimately dismissed. ^[2]

Life and education

Naca grew up in northern Virginia.^[3] She has a B.A. from the University of Washington, an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh,^[4] and a Ph.D. in English from University of Nebraska.^[5]

Her poems have appeared in Poetry,^[6] ART PAPERS^[7] Bloom, Harpur Palate,^[8] Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner,^[9] Octopus Magazine,^[10] Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rio Grande Review.

Naca is a member of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.

She served as Writer In Residence with Minnesota Prison Writing Workshops.^[11] She lives in Minneapolis.^[12]

Awards

• mtvU National Poetry Series Prize. selected by Yusef Komunyakaa^[13]
• 2008 National Poetry Series
• Lannan Residency Fellowship
• Bread Loaf Fellowship
• Hedgebrook women writers in residence program on Whidbey Island^[14]

Works

• "Baptism", The Blind Chatelaine's Keys
• "One Foot". Prairie Schooner. Spring 2009.
• Bird Eating Bird. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-178234-3. , a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in 2010^[5]

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