Final Judge for the 2006 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize:
Valerie Martínez
Valerie Martínez’s
first book, Absence, Luminescent,
won the Larry 
Levis
Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her
second book, World to World, was published
by University of Arizona Press. Most recently, Sutton Hoo Press, a
literary fine press in Minnesota, has produced A Flock of Scarlet
Doves, a limited edition book of Martínez’s translations
of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini, with lino-cuts by noted artist
Adrián Tió. Her poems have appeared in many journals,
including Parnassus, Puerto del Sol, Luna, The Bloomsbury
Review, Solo, Prairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review.
Her anthology publications include, The Best American Poetry 1996, American
Poetry: Next Generation, New American Poetry: A Breadloaf Anthology,
and Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance.
Along with Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird, she edited the anthology, Reinventing
the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writing
of North America. Valerie Martínez is one of twelve poets
to be featured in, Poetas
y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse,
a multidisciplinary initiative funded, in part, by the National Endowment
for the Arts.
She teaches at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico.
