BIO
SHORT: Christina Olivares is the author of the books of poetry FUTURE BOTANIC (Get Fresh Books, 2023), NO MAP OF THE EARTH INCLUDES STARS (winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize), and of the chaplet INTERRUPT (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2015).
LONGER: Christina Olivares is a writer, digital artist, educator and scholar, author of the books of poetry FUTURE BOTANIC (Get Fresh Books, 2022), NO MAP OF THE EARTH INCLUDES STARS (winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize), and of the chaplet INTERRUPT (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2015). Olivares has performed and published widely, notably recently by The Academy of American Poets and in "Working Intersections" at Lincoln Center. In 2020, her videopoem "Diagnosis" was published by The Poetry Project alongside those of las Tetas, an ephemeral collaboration of latinx/e poets living in NYC during the first pandemic waves; in 2019, Lambda Literary published an interview between Mahogany L. Browne and Olivares about Audre Lorde's legacy and archives, following Olivares’ 2018 essay exploring Lorde’s archives in Makhzin. In 2019, a selection from No Map of the Earth Includes Stars was used to anchor the digital choreopoem-essay ".break .dance" by Marisa Parham, which was published by small axe (sx archipelagos, Issue 3). Olivares is a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Finalist (2022), a finalist for the NYFA Grant in Poetry (2021), the recipient of BRIO Nonfiction and Poetry Grants (2021 and 2018), a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency recipient (2017), and two Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants (2016, 2012). In 2019, Olivares was an inaugural AAWW Witness Fellow with a focus on incarceration and deportation. Olivares is a full-time high school educator and administrator, and has taught as a visiting professor at the Rutgers-Newark MFA poetry program, in the St. Joseph’s University MFA poetry program, and at community-based workshops through the Bronx Council on the Arts, and, since 2021, has written teacher guides for Random House young adult novels in verse. Olivares is earning her Ph.D. in English Education at Teachers College @ Columbia University, where she also teaches as adjunct faculty in the MA program.