Cintia Santana

Cintia Santana’s debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023), received the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver Medal, and was short-listed for the 2023 California Independent Booksellers Alliance “Golden Poppy” Award. She is a recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Kenyon Review.

Cintia holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. Since 2007, she has been teaching literary translation, poetry, and fiction workshops in Spanish and English at Stanford University.