Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series - Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Poetry reading by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, author of three collections of poetry, My Perfect Cognate, Lima :: Limón, and The Verging Cities, 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 like The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, and Publisher's Weekly. Natalie’s latest poems have been published or are forthcoming in publications like The Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry 2024 and more. She 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 Inaugural Director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library at USF.