https://www.leonorasimonovis.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-01-19 https://www.leonorasimonovis.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-10-16 https://www.leonorasimonovis.com/about daily 1.0 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35cc0d023f243227704d95/ac81fa5f-a3d9-4c9d-abf7-747eeb8dc515/Simonovis_headshot.jpg About - Leonora Simonovis is the author of Study of the Raft, selected by final judge Sherwin Bitsui as the winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry and recipient of an Honorable Mention at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards. Her chapbook, Waiting for a Ripe Mango, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Contest in 2019 and her work has appeared in DMQ Review, The Hopper. About Place Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Arkansas International, and Diode Poetry Journal, among others. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Leonora holds a Ph.D in Hispanic literatures from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from VONA, the Poetry Foundation, The California Arts Council, The Poetry Lab, the Vermont Studio Center, and Esperimento Sul Respiro. She is the Currents Editor at terrain.org, and a 2024 Harriet Books Reviewer. Photo Credit: @wholeheartphoto https://www.leonorasimonovis.com/media daily 0.75 2024-08-23 https://www.leonorasimonovis.com/book daily 0.75 2021-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35cc0d023f243227704d95/1630449338332-ZI4165TOJURY6ZM01YQG/Study+of+the+Raft+front+cover+%281%29.jpg Book - Praise For Study of the Raft “I can’t remember a debut collection so startling and fresh, so uncompromising and passionate. Leonora Simonovis’s powerful, confident voice runs through each and every one of these poems like a lifeline in defiance of injustice and oppression. She writes about Venezuela, exile, and family with such rich detail and nuance that we are swept away into her struggle to maintain a precarious balance in all of her worlds. This book is a sharp reminder that the personal is also—and always—political. She is always tuned in to the heart, a heart we can believe in and trust.” —Jim Daniels “In Leonora Simonovis's beautiful book, Study of the Raft, family history is mixed with feminist history, and what it means to be a citizen. The death of Abuela's child intersects with what it means to be a woman, dodging "the bullets of others' desire," and the speaker's sense of alienation in her own country. All of these tensions accumulate into an important geometry of American life. Simonovis's poems are plainspoken and powerful, gentle and fierce. An impressive debut, these poems are a gift to contemporary American poetry.” —Victoria Chang https://www.leonorasimonovis.com/events-and-classes daily 0.75 2025-05-08