{"id":40566,"date":"2025-10-16T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=40566"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:49:21","slug":"west-campus-professor-wins-2026-ottoline-prize-award-for-poetry-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/west-campus-professor-wins-2026-ottoline-prize-award-for-poetry-book\/","title":{"rendered":"West Campus Professor Wins 2026 Ottoline Prize Award For Poetry Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stella Santamaria, an assistant professor of English at West Campus, received the 2026 Ottoline Prize Award for the manuscript of her upcoming poetry book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Silence.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award recognizes female authors who have written a book-length poetry manuscript. Winners will receive $5,000 after the book is published, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a two-week residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publication of the work by Fence Books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is being edited and is expected to be released in the fall or winter of 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am over the moon,\u201d Santamaria said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book features bilingual poems<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Spanish and English<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and a few words in Italian and French.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have various themes including family, grief, loss and nature and showcase what connects people and makes them human.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are poems about my life, basically, and also place and realm of ancestry, my ancestors,\u201d Santamaria said. \u201cThere\u2019s everything in it, and I think that the readers can find themselves in some way in it, either as a window or as a mirror.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 52-year-old was named a finalist for various other awards and prizes for her manuscript, beginning with the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize in 2020 and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from the University of Notre Dame in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her creative process for<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> California Silence <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">began 10 years ago. Most of the work was created during her three years at Saint Mary\u2019s College of California, while she worked on her master of fine arts in creative writing, which she received in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cProfessor Santamaria understands the fragility of the human condition,\u201d said Manuel Duasso, an English professor at Kendall Campus. \u201cShe understands [that] a lot of us have to struggle with the day, for a lot of us things don\u2019t come easy, but we fight and we struggle, and I see a lot of that tone in her writing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander Haq, who is an adjunct professor of history at Kendall Campus, has been working on Santamaria\u2019s book blurb for the past year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a very evocative style of poetry, very descriptive,\u201d Haq said. \u201cIt has a very sort of off beat to it, if you will. The way that it\u2019s written, it presents well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santamaria plans to publish another poem\/narrative book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PERPETUAL<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, later this year that\u00a0 juxtaposes chaos and joy. Its manuscript won the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs colleagues and as friends, we are supposed to bring each other up and support each other in any way we can,\u201d said Rita Fernandez-Sterling, who is an English professor at Kendall Campus and serves as adviser to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/the-reporter-and-miambiance-selected-as-pacemaker-finalists\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miambiance<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cI support her wholeheartedly, and I am really excited for what\u2019s to come for her, and to see what else she\u2019s going to produce and win in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Click<\/i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"><i> here<\/i><\/a><\/span><i> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. 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