
University of Oklahoma
780 Van Vleet Oval
Kaufman Hall, Room 105
Norman, OK 73019-4037
Photo: Paula Vásquez
Santiago Acosta is an American-born Venezuelan poet living in New York City, where he is a PhD candidate in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. In 2018 his poetry manuscript El próximo desierto [The next desert] won the José Emilio Pacheco Literature Prize, awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair and University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He has published Mañana vendrán las piedras [Tomorrow the stones will come], a photobook made in collaboration with photographer Efraín Vivas (Archivo de Fotografía Urbana, 2019); Cuaderno de otra parte [Notebook from somewhere else] (Libros del Fuego, 2018); and Detrás de los erizos [Behind the sea urchins], winner of the contest for previously unpublished authors organized by Monte Ávila Editores (2007).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 San Francisco he co-directed the journal Canto: A Bilingual Review of Latin American Civilization, Culture, and Literature. He was a founder and editor of the poetry magazine El Salmón, which won Venezuela’s National Book Award in 2010.
University of Oklahoma
780 Van Vleet Oval
Kaufman Hall, Room 105
Norman, OK 73019-4037