Dream of Xibalba
2023
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4.73
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132
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Dream of Xibalba, Stephanie Adams-Santos' incantatory long poem, draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits. The influence of such poets as Cecilia Vicuña, Federico García Lorca, and Yvan Goll is evident here, yet Adams-Santos' voice and vision are entirely her own. Selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of The 2021 Orison Poetry Prize, Dream of Xibalba is an epic work of cultural and spiritual significance.
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Author
Stephanie Adams-Santos
Author · 2 books
Stephanie Adams-Santos is a Guatemalan-American writer whose work spans poetry, prose, screenwriting, and other swampy, hybrid forms. Her work is rooted in the crossroads of ritual, ancestry, and environment—with a penchant for the queer and uncanny. Stephanie's poetry books and chapbooks include Dream of Xibalba (forthcoming—winner of the 2021 Orison Prize); Swarm Queen's Crown (a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards); Total Memory; and The Sundering (winner of a New York Chapbook Fellowship from Poetry Society of America). Her short story "Night Flowers" lives in the latinx anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers. In the realm of television, Stephanie has written multiple episodes over several seasons of Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW/Netflix), a series featuring short tales of horror and haunting. Her work has been generously supported by fellowships and grants from Oregon Literary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, and Film Independent—where Stephanie was a 2018 Episodic Lab Fellow and 2019 Project Involve Screenwriting Fellow, as well as recipient of a 2019 Chaz Ebert Fellowship. In addition to her literary work, Stephanie is a professional Tarot reader and occasional instructor of poetry and divination, and tends to an occasional tiny, personal press called Ojo de la Selva.
