Meet Cid Galicia

Cid Galicia is a Mexican American poet, who has been teaching in New Orleans for over the past decade. He graduated with his MFA summer 2023 through The University of Nebraska Omaha. He is a poetry editor for The Good Life Review, Poetry Open Mic Host at Bar Redux, Events Assistant for lmnl_lit New Orleans, Blogger for Hominum Review, and reader for The CLMP FIRECRACKER Poetry Manuscript Awards. He was the recipient of the Richard Duggin Fellowship for excellence in writing, runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and nominated for the Diverse Rising Graduate Scholars Award. He was Assistant to The Editor Kate Gale, for The Red Hen Press–through which his Learning Anthology, The Miracle of Flip-Flops, was published. His work has appeared in The Indianapolis Review, The Watershed Review, The Elevation Review, Trestle Ties, South Broadway Press, Roi Faineant Press, The Letter Review, The Peauxdunque Review, and other journals. He attended the 2023 Summer Writing Residencies of Sundress Publications & The Kenyon Review, and will be returning to Kenyon this summer.

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