Alonso Llerena
Alonso Llerena is a Peruvian writer, visual artist, and educator. He holds an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
His work explores the interconnections between the poetics of exile and the poetics of remains, attending to the concrete materiality of trace and ruin—whether physical or lodged in memory. He is a poetry and prose editor at Cobra Milk.
He is the winner of the 2023 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Poetry, a Tin House alumnus, and a recipient of fellowships from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and Brooklyn Poets. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Offing, FENCE, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
