Overview
Cristina Correa is originally from Chicago, where she earned degrees in creative writing (BA) and Latin American and Latino studies (MA). She served at-risk youth and their families and supported Latinx art and research as an administrator, grant writer, and teaching artist for more than a decade. She was recently published by Diálogo, The Missouri Review, and TriQuarterly, and awarded recognition by CantoMundo, Hedgebrook, and the Whiting Foundation. Her poem “Reflection from a Bridge” was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the 2015 Best New Poets anthology. Her in-progress poetry collection considers and reimagines landscapes of grief and trauma through diaspora.
Fall 2019 Office Hours: T 2-4pm; Rockefeller Hall 427
Photo by: Piper Kruse
Research Focus
- Black feminist thought
- Creative nonfiction
- Ecopoetics
- Ekphrasis
- Elegy
- Latinx / Caribbean art
- Poetry
- Prose and poetry in relation
- Short fiction
- Visual studies
- Womxn of color art