Bessy Reyna, Award-Winning Poet

Bessy Reyna is an award-winning Latina poet. Her latest book, The Battlefield of Your Body, a bilingual poetry collection, was released in June, 2005 by the Hill-Stead Museum. Her first poetry collection in English is She Remembers, published in 1997 by Andrew Mountain Press. Ms. Reynas Spanish language writing, published in Latin America, includes a poetry chapbook, Terrarium, and a collection of short stories, Ab Ovo. Reyna's poems and stories are found in US and Latin American literary magazines including the award-winning "Connecticut Review" and online in the Global Media Journal.She has also been published in numerous anthologies including El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, The Arc of Love: Lesbian Poems, and The Wild Good. Ms. Reyna's awards include First Prize in the Joseph E. Brodine Poetry Competition and artist award grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Greater Hartford Arts Council. In 2001 she was named Latina Citizen of the Year by the State of Connecticut Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission. In 2006 she received the Pioneer Award at the Inaugural Diversity Awards presented by the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs at the University of Connecticut and a Living Legend Award from Saint Joseph College Department of Social Work. In 2007 she received the One Woman Makes A Difference Award from the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund ...



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