Santiago
Acosta

Santiago Acosta (San Francisco, California, 1983), Venezuelan poet and researcher. He is currently a Lecturer of Spanish at the University of California, Davis. PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Columbia University, 2020). His recent poetry book, El próximo desierto (The coming desert), won the III Literature Prize José Emilio Pacheco “Ciudad y Naturaleza,” awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) and the Museum of Environmental Sciences of Guadalajara University. He has also published Cuaderno de otra parte (Notebook from elsewhere)(Libros del Fuego, 2018), the photobook Mañana vendrán las piedras (The stones will come tomorrow), made in collaboration with photographer Efraín Vivas (Archivo Fotografía Urbana, 2018), and Detrás de los erizos (Behind the Sea Urchins) (winner of the contest for previously unpublished authors organized by Monte Ávila Editores, 2007). In Caracas he was a founding editor, along with Willy McKey, of the poetry journal El Salmón (National Book Award, 2010). In San Francisco, CA, he co-directed the academic journal Canto and in New York he worked at Columbia University’s Revista Hispánica Moderna.