SAMANTHA COSENTINO
Originally from Buenos Aires, Samantha Cosentino returned to San Francisco where she was raised after years spent living on an island in the Pacific, the Mojave desert, and all over Germany. Home still eludes her—she suspects she writes in search of it.
Samantha earned an MFA in Creative Writing and writes poetry, interviews, and reviews and translates from Spanish and German. She has also enjoyed the collaboration involved in writing for the stage. Samantha was recently recognized as a Browning Society Gita Specker Monologue Contest winner and a Poetry Center Audre Lorde Award finalist. Her latest poetry collection explores what is lost and what is gained in the immigrant experience, language acquisition, and translation, and recent poems have appeared in New American Writing. She lives along the California coast and works in education.
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featuring Samantha Cosentino & Zêdan Xelef,
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