Analicia Sotelo is the author of
Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, to be published by
Milkweed Editions in February 2018. She is also the author of the chapbook,
Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto González for a 2016 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. Her poem “I’m Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin and It’s Awful†was selected for Best New Poets 2015 by Tracy K. Smith. Poems have also appeared in the
New Yorker,
Boston Review,
FIELD,
Kenyon Review,
New England Review, and
The Antioch Review. She is the 2016 DISQUIET International Literary Prize winner in poetry and is the recipient of scholarships from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the Image Text Ithaca Symposium. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston.
