Writer
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Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, selected by Ross Gay as the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize (Milkweed Editions). Analicia’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poem-a-day and You Are Here, edited by Ada Limón for the Library of Congress.

  • "Dazzling..[SOTELO] SPEAKS TO THE HEARTACHE OF CRUSHES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND A LONGING FOR FREEDOM FROM THE EXPECTATIONS AMPLIFIED BY RELIGION AND CULTURE."

    NBC

  • "[SOTELO'S] WORK CHALLENGES THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL FEMININE STEREOTYPE BY INFUSING HER FEMALE VOICES, INCLUDING ARIADNE'S, WITH INTELLECT, WISDOM, AND COMPLICATIONS."

    PBS Newshour

  • "IN A BOOK MUCH ABOUT YOUNG LATINA SEXUALITY, AND WHO CONSTRUCTS AND CONTROLS IT, WHAT'S NOT PRESENT IS AS RELEVANT AS WHAT IS."

    New York Times

  • "SOTELO HAS GIVEN VOICE TO WOMEN NOT OFTEN SEEN IN THE PAGES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AND HAS REVEALED IN INNOVATIVE WAYS THE MESSINESS THAT OFTEN CHARACTERIZES RELATIONSHIPS. 'VIRGIN' HERALDS AN IMPORTANT NEW VOICE IN THE WORLD OF POETRY."

    Houston Chronicle

The moon points out my neckline like a chaperone

The moon points out my neckline like a chaperone

“By leaning into the many registers of heartbreak, Sotelo makes something incredibly beautiful.” —ROSS GAY

  • Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX

  • https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/family-portrait-with-enchiladas-and-a-movie/

    Family Portrait with Enchiladas

  • https://www.thecommononline.org/new-poems-from-you-are-here-edited-by-ada-limon/

    Quemado, TX

  • https://poets.org/poem/grace-among-ferns

    Grace Among the Ferns

You are here

Watch the inaugural reading at the Library of Congress, hosted by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. Featuring poets Molly McCully Brown, Jake Skeets, Analicia Sotelo and Paul Tran.

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