Maritza N. Estrada

Maritza N. Estrada was born in Toppenish, Washington, to Mexican parents. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Arizona State University and served as the inaugural 2020 – 2021 Artistic Development & Research Assistant for the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at ASU, created by Pulitzer Poetry Prize winner Natalie Diaz. Estrada is a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow. Her honors and awards include the 2024 CantoMundo residency, 2022 Fortuna artist residency in Mexico City, 2021 Swarthout Award in Poetry, Amplify Arts Micro Grant, 2021/2019 Virginia G. Piper Creative Research Fellowship & 2019 Creative Engagement Fellowship, winner of the Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award, Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award, alumna in the 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop, and 2018 Winter Tangerine workshop at Poets House. Her work can be found in the Academy of American Poets, Narrative Magazine, The Offing, Pidgeonholes, Blue Mesa Review, Río Grande Review. Estrada calls the apple orchards, desert, and mountains her home.