Angela Narciso Torres

Angela Narciso Torres is the author of Blood Orange, winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in POETRYMissouri Review, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and PANK. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received First Prize in the 2019 Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York). New City magazine named her one of Chicago's Lit 50 in 2016. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she currently resides in South Florida. In 2020 she joins the conference faculty of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival as a manuscript consultant. She serves on the editorial panel of New England Review and is a senior and reviews editor for RHINO Poetry.