Felicia Zamora’s eight books of poetry include Murmuration Archives (Akrilica Series, Noemi Press, 2026), Interstitial Archaeology (University of Wisconsin Press Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2025), I Always Carry My Bones (winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and Ohioana Book Award in Poetry), and Body of Render (winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award). Zamora has won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the C.P. Cavafy Prize, the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and the Wabash Prize, and has received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale, and Tin House. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Ecotone, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, Orion, 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.
Poetry
Spring 2025
Ecogodliness
The Kenyon Review · “Ecogodliness” by Felicia Zamora Christensen wonders where art necessitates, our story of the world. Our. Our. Our. Do our jaws get numb from gulping our ours […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Summoning Huixtocihuatl at My Annual Physical
Do you eat enough salt? Dr. S. raises her eyes to meet mine — looks over my knobby knees & dark nipples under the gown — her chin still deep in her scribbles, in […]
