Description:
In her bold collection, Murmuration Archives, Felicia Zamora traverses an ancient Mesoamerican codex, lineage, and stage two breast cancer treatment. Murmuration Archives is a love poem to descendants of ancient Mesoamerica and cancer survivors--illuminating the primordial collective inside each of us.
Brief description:
Felicia Zamora is the author of seven books of poetry including Interstitial Archaeology (University of Wisconsin Press 2025), I Always Carry My Bones (University of Iowa Press 2021), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and Body of Render (Red Hen Press 2020), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award. She's won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, C.P. Cavafy Prize, Tomaz Salamun Prize, Wabash Prize, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, Tin House, and Yaddo. Her poems appear in Alaska Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, The Nation, Orion, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, West Branch, and others. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and a poetry editor for Colorado Review.