LUCIA
poet, editor, arts administrator
about
Lucia LoTempio is a poet living in her hometown, Buffalo, NY. She is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books, 2020), which was named a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is the co-author, with Suzannah Russ Spaar, of the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy, 2019).
Lucia is exploring a new project that, as of now, has her focus on familial histories of immigration and whiteness, Catholic art and gaze, and the constructs of metaphor.
Currently, Lucia is a Program Manger with The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Previously, she was a special faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University as the Head Instructor for Arts Greenhouse, a project of the English Department. When living in Pittsburgh, she taught community writing courses for adults at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, and served on the steering committee for Pittsburgh Emerging Arts Leaders, a project of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Formerly, Lucia was the Senior Manager of programming, residencies, and outreach at City of Asylum, an arts and social justice nonprofit. She often teaches virtual writing workshops, and you can find out how to join the fun in the Events tab.
Lucia serves on the Editorial Board for Alice James Books, as an Associate Editor of Poetry for The Offing, as a Contributing Editor for Gandy Dancer, and as a manuscript reader for Autumn House Press. She was formerly the Managing Editor for The Adroit Journal, the Reviews Editor for Aster(ix) Journal, and previously worked with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from SUNY Geneseo with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Sociology. In spring 2018, she received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh.
She won first place in the 2017 University of Pittsburgh Writing Contest for Nonfiction. Lucia has been a semifinalist for the 92Y Discovery Contest, and finalist for the Black Warrior Review Contest in Poetry, and the Winter Tangerine Award in Poetry.
You can find her work as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series, and her poems have been or will be published in West Branch, BOAAT, Passages North, TYPO, The Journal, Sixth Finch, Quarterly West, Washington Square Review, Linebreak, among others.
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Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books, 2020). With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy, 2019). She is an Associate Editor of Poetry for The Offing, serves on the Editorial Board for Alice James Books, and works as a Program Manager for the Loft Literary Center. Lucia lives and writes in Buffalo, NY.