Cristina Correa

Poet

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
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