Emma Trelles is the author Tropicalia, winner of the 2010 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press in February 2011. She is also the author of the chapbook Little Spells (GOSS183), a recommended read by the Valparaiso Poetry Review and the Montserrat Review. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the recipient of a Green Eyeshade award for art criticism, she has been a featured author at the Miami Book Fair International and at the Palabra Pura reading series at the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago. She received her MFA in creative writing from Florida International University and is a regular contributor to the Best American Poetry blog.