Interviews
Hopkins Review
New Books in Conversation: Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Felicia Zamora
In this second installment celebrating new and forthcoming books that include work first published in The Hopkins Review, we’re happy to share space with Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Felicia Zamora. Martínez-Leyva’s poem “Portrait of Aging Father”, first published in THR 15.4, lives in Eduardo’s Cowboy Park (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Zamora’s Interstitial Archaelogy, which she discusses here, was also published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2025.
Zamora’s poem “Head Lines: A Contrapuntal”, first published in THR 17.4, lives in Zamora’s Murmuration Archives (Noemi Press), forthcoming in its Akrilica Series—a co-publishing venture between Noemi Press and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame—in 2026.
Felicia Zamora (FZ): Eddie! When Giovannai [Rosa, THR senior editor] paired us together my first thought was “Hooray!” and smiles ensued. It’s been a while since our CantoMundo retreat together in NY. You know, that was an important trip for me. I’d been feeling so siloed in my writing and connecting with Latinx poets at Canto gave me beloveds for life. You are one of the artists that really made me feel seen. Thank you for that. I’m not sure I ever told you that before. Well, here we go. Ever since Canto, I’ve been following you and your writing on social. When Cowboy Park won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry with the University of Wisconsin Press, I was elated, but not shocked. Your work is fire! I knew it was only time before your first book ruptured onto the scene. Congratulations on winning this prize! Being your press mate is a fierce honor.
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INTERVIEW WITH FELICIA ZAMORA - SLOW BLEED
Someone once said that artists are required to pay attention; I agree, but long before I knew I was an artist, I knew paying attention was a tremendous and horrible gift, one that required me to ingest what I witnessed, ingest the world around me, and to be in a constant state of process about what I see, what I experience, and the stories of others. I’ve heard white folks say time and time again that they’ve “never thought of that before” when it comes to various social justice and equity issues. Frankly, that privilege is one, that being a person of color, I’ve never possessed. Being bi-racial, I walk around in a constant state of otherness. I find that my strength comes from this lens, this questioning the world around me, constantly wondering Why? instead of accepting the world, and How to change what feels incorrect?
North American Review
Considerations of Self in Poetry: You and the Page
Felicia Zamora’s Poem “A Long Road Never Takes Us” Will Appear In Nar Issue 302.1.
What brings you to the page? The incessant lull of the image? Perhaps the habitual pace around the desk, in taunt of your time? The spark of unexplainable inspiration that requires you to bolt toward any mechanism of capture to get it down? The guilt that burrows dark, behind pupils, under the sheets, wheezing, Why are you not writing? All these things may bring you to the page at one time or another, and the list of a gazillion other illuminating and dreadful reasons, but the importance lies in you being at the page.
Indiana Review
INTERVIEW WITH 2015 1/2 K PRIZE FINALIST FELICIA ZAMORA
2015 1/2 K Prize Finalist, Felicia Zamora, answers our much anticipated questions about her poem “Decoy” and her overall experiences as a writer. In this interview, she dives in and elaborates on what inspired this piece and gives advice to writers submitting to our ongoing 2016 1/2 K Prize.
College of Liberal Arts Magazine, Colorado State University
ALUMNA FELICIA ZAMORA WINS 2016 ANDRÉS MONTOYA POETRY PRIZE
The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize is an initiative which supports the publication of a first book by a Latino/a poet residing in the United States. The winner of the seventh edition of the prize is English department alumna Felicia Zamora, (MFA Creative Writing: Poetry, 2012).