Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of My Perfect Cognate (Copper Canyon Press, 2025); Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015), winner of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Great Lakes College Association’s New Writers Award, the National Association of Chicana/o Studies Book Award, and the Utah Book Award. 

In 2021, Scenters-Zapico was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize from Yale University. A recipient of a Ruth Lilly Dorothy Sergeant Rosenberg Fellowship and a Lannan Fellowship, Scenters-Zapico teaches at the University of South Florida and lives in Tampa.