Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal’s Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017) received a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellow, she has published in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Boston Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is working on a poetry and essay collection while raising her son in Los Angeles.