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The Hive Live! Featuring Rick Barot & Cintia Santana
Born in the Philippines, Rick Barot grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. His previous books are The Darker Fall, which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. His fourth book of poems The Galleons was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. It was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library, was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. Barot has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. In 2020, Barot received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Tacoma, Washington.
Cintia Santana teaches literary translation and poetry workshops in Spanish and English at Stanford University. She lives in Menlo Park, CA the ancestral and unceded land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Santana's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and2020, 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, and in numerous journals. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023) was short-listed for the 2023 California Independent Booksellers Alliance “Golden Poppy” Award, received the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver Medal, and won the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Learn more about her work at: www.cintiasantana.com
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