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Soledad is a 2017 CantoMundo fellow, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, has been a finalist for the Missouri Review's Jeffry E. Smith poetry prize, the Mississippi Review's annual editor's prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award. Her poem “Myths We Tell” won the 2019 Joy Harjo poetry prize for Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. Her poem “Before an MRI: a Questionnaire” won SWWIM’s 2020 SWWIM-For-the-Fun-of-It contest. Her poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Mississippi Review, the Iron Horse Literary Review, Memorius, the Crab Orchard Review, and other venues. Her first collection titled I Was a Bell won the 2022 IAANI Book Award and 2019 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and was published by Red Hen Press in fall of 2021. Soledad is Professor of English and chair of the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Allegheny College. Her scholarly work focuses on British Romanticism, travel writing, post-colonial literatures, WGSS, and interdisciplinarity. She splits her time between Pittsburgh and Meadville, Pennsylvania. Follow her at https://www.msoledadcaballero.com
I Was a Bell poems by Soledad Caballero cover art by Caitlin Sacks

Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

M. Soledad Caballero and Marlen Harrison·
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"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
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