Rachelle Cruz

Rachelle Cruz is a Filipina American poet from Hayward, California. She won the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize[1] and a 2018 American Book Award.[2] Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in Strange Horizons,[3] the San Francisco Chronicle,[4] As/Us[5],, and MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.[6] Cruz wrote about reimagining the creative writing workshop in Poets & Writers Magazine.[7]

She teaches at University of California, Riverside.[8] In 2019, she was Inlandia Literary Laureate.[9][10]

Works

  • Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discussing, and Creating Comics (Cognella, 2020) ISBN 9781793514417
  • God’s Will for Monsters (Inlandia, 2017) ISBN 9780997093247
  • Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood (Dancing Girl Press, 2012)

References

  1. ↑ Institute, Inlandia (2022-01-01). "Hillary Gravendyk Prize – Past Winners".
  2. ↑ Weber, Jessica (2018-10-30). "UCR poet wins 2018 American Book Award".
  3. ↑ Cruz, Rachelle (2022-08-29). "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital".
  4. ↑ Roderick, David (2021-11-21). "State Lines: A poem by Rachelle Cruz".
  5. ↑ Cruz, Rachelle (2014-02-14). "Rachelle Cruz - Poetry".
  6. ↑ Cruz, Rachelle (2024-11-01). "Malunggay Motherhood".
  7. ↑ Cruz, Rachelle (2020-09-01). "We Need New Metaphors: Reimagining Power in the Creative Writing Workshop".
  8. ↑ Tran, Christine (2018-11-14). "UCR lecturer Rachelle Cruz wins 2018 American Book Award". Highlander. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  9. ↑ "Poet Rachelle Cruz has big plans for her term as Inlandia Literary Laureate". Press Enterprise. 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  10. ↑ "Free workshop will help Inland teens polish their poetry". Press Enterprise. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2020-09-30.