Talent Guide

Stephanie Adams-Santos

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Episodic Lab 2018, Grants and Awards 2019, Project Involve 2019

Bio

Stephanie Adams-Santos is a Guatemalan-American writer whose work spans poetry, prose, screenwriting, and hybrid genres. Her poetry collection Swarm Queen’s Crown (Fathom Books) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Other books include: Total Memory (Finishing Line Press) and The Sundering (Poetry Society of America)—winner of a New York Chapbook Fellowship. Adams-Santos received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a BA from Stanford. She is the founder of Tarot Obscuro and Ojo de la Selva Press. Her work, which is rooted in the crossroads of ritual, ancestry, identity, and environment, has been supported though fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Film Independent.

Current Project

Chingonas

Logline

When people start to go missing near the Mexican-US border, a modern Frida Kahlo and her misfit crew of Latinx Chingonas (bad-asses) must summon magical powers to protect their world.