https://simonezapata.info Simone Zapata Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:33:09 +0000 https://simonezapata.info en https://simonezapata.info/About-1 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:26:19 +0000 Simone Zapata https://simonezapata.info/About-1 Simone Zapata is a poet, editor, and educator based in Oakland, CA. Her work has earned her residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, Banff Centre, Community of Writers, and Miami Book Fair. Her writing can be found in Brink Literary Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Dilettante Army, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Simone holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts and organizes with the SF/Bay Area Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association.&nbsp; <img width="3810" height="5334" width_o="3810" height_o="5334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f4ffaaf3c308a1ccf3dd2cd1d4f7344d551ff884d7ba2ad002c6852f490e370/SZ_MBF-author-photo-5x7.JPG" data-mid="238775188" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f4ffaaf3c308a1ccf3dd2cd1d4f7344d551ff884d7ba2ad002c6852f490e370/SZ_MBF-author-photo-5x7.JPG" /> PUBLICATIONS 2025 | “Nice Guys Finish Last” SWWIM Every Day&nbsp; 2025 | “Catching Up on Creative Process with Brink Literary Fellow Simone Zapata” Re: Views, Brink Literary Journal 2024 | “Wayward Taxonomies” Dilettante Army, Issue&nbsp;Summer 2024&nbsp; 2024 | “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” sPARKLE &amp; bLINK, Issue 117&nbsp; 2024 | “Deep Breath” Beloit Poetry Journal, Volume 73, Issue 22024 | “Required Transfusion” Brink Literary Journal, Issue 7 2023 | “‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live’” Inverted Syntax, Issue 5&nbsp;2023 | “My therapist asks me if I like myself” Inverted Syntax, Issue 52023 | “As Particulate Matter” Midnight Chem, Issue 1 (Pushcart nominated) 2023 | “Spaces of Affect and Enormity: Angela Peñaredondo Interviewed by Simone Zapata” MAYDAY 2023 | “Reason for Consultation” The&nbsp;Vassar Review, Issue 8 2023 | “In the beginning we were waves” Reed Magazine, Issue 156 2023 | “Spray Paint” Spectrum Literary Journal, Volume 66 2023 | “Stone Sequence” Tiny Spoon, Issue 10 2022 | “A Cauldron of Bats” Foglifter Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2 AWARDS &amp; RECOGNITIONS 2026 | Writer in Residence, Hedgebrook 2025 | Emerging Writer Fellowship in Poetry, Miami Book Fair&nbsp; 2024 | Poet &amp; Author Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2024 | Patricia Clifford Scholarship, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2023 | Finalist, Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, selected by Marie Howe 2023 | Emerging Writer Fellowship in Hybrid Writing,&nbsp;Brink Literary Journal 2023 | Finalist, Sublingua Prize for Poetry, Inverted Syntax&nbsp;2023 | Burnett Miller Memorial Scholarship, Community of Writers&nbsp; 2022 | REEF Post-Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of the Arts 2021 | Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, Nightboat Books EXHIBITIONS 2025 | Required Transfusion&nbsp; Solo Exhibition, Brink Literary Journal &amp; University of Iowa, IA&nbsp; 2024 | Poetry in Parks&nbsp; Group Exhibition, Quiet Lightning, China Camp State Park, CA&nbsp; 2022 | Tense Renderings: the will and won’t of spatial logics Co-curated with Fía Benitez, The REEF, Los Angeles, CA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2021 | Voices Under Water Solo Exhibition, WaveCave,&nbsp;California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2021 | Next Words Group Exhibition, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA 2021 | Come Sail Away Group Exhibition, NeurOpera, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA&nbsp; 2020 | Resonance, Instability &amp; Witness Group Exhibition, Discrepant Engagement: An Interdisciplinary Writing Symposium California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA ZINES &amp; ARTIST BOOKS 2026 | Sites of Encounter: An Ekphrastic Poetry Zine Miami Book Fair &amp; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL&nbsp;2025 | We Must Risk Delight&nbsp; Miami Book Fair &amp; Extra Virgin Press, Miami, FL&nbsp; 2023 | Collected Poems, edited by Sarah Sophia Yanni&nbsp; Circa Festival, Los Angeles, CA&nbsp; 2022 | An Evening of Performance, edited by C. Bain Los Angeles, CA&nbsp; 2020 | Until Further Notice,&nbsp;co-authored with Christine Imperial&nbsp; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2018 | Standing Out&nbsp; Chapter 510 &amp; North Oakland Community Charter School, Oakland, CA 2018 | Home Is a Place &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Chapter 510 &amp; North Oakland Community Charter School, Oakland, CA 2018 | Mother of Gold&nbsp; Chapter 510 &amp; Acorn Elementary School, Oakland, CA 2018 | What Is Beneath San José ZineCon, San José, CA 2018 | Body Channels,&nbsp;co-authored with Li Patron Bay Area Queer Zine Festival, Oakland, CA 2016 | Notes from the Highway South Bay DIY Zine Collective, San José, CA 2016 | Breaking the Ice Cheers from the Wasteland, San José, CA 2016 | Names Think and Die Thinking Collective, San José, CA https://simonezapata.info/Work Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:26:01 +0000 Simone Zapata https://simonezapata.info/Work <img width="1000" 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consultation. While trained in the Chicago Manual of Style and the Associated Press Stylebook, I center my editing practice in a translingual approach, which deprioritizes the standardization of language and instead asks what language and form can do for the writer to best communicate their intentions. I'm particularly interested in working with hybrid manuscripts, academic and creative non-fiction essays, poetry, and memoir.&nbsp;My editing and consulting services are offered at sliding scale and are consistent with the Editorial Freelancers Association's market rate. Out of respect for my clients' intellectual property (and my own intellectual prowess), I do not use AI in any aspect of my services. If you're interested in learning more, feel free to reach out for a sample edit or to talk through your current project! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ︎ zapata.potato [at] gmail.com