About Michelle Penaloza
Michelle Penaloza is the author of All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems, which has received the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and the James Laughlin Award, presented by The Academy of American Poets to honor and promote a second poetry collection set to be published in the upcoming calendar year. (Persea Books, 2025). Additionally, she is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, which won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019), along with two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015) and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). Among her accolades are the Frederick Bock Prize from the Poetry Foundation and grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Community Foundation of Mendocino County, Upstate Creative Corps, 4Culture, Artist Trust, Literary Arts, and PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists). Her work can be found in The Seventh Wave, Poetry, Honey Literary, Bellingham Review, New England Review, Lantern Review, and is featured in American Life in Poetry. Proudly the daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI, and grew up in Nashville, TN. She currently resides in Covelo, CA.Browse all poems and texts published on Michelle Penaloza
