Angelina Sáenz

Angelina Sáenz (she/her) is a writer, a poet, and an educator and staff developer recognized for her contributions to education. She received the 2014 Exceptional Woman Award from La Opinión newspaper and was a finalist for the White House Commitment to Excellence Award, honored by President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

Sáenz is the author of the poetry collections Maestra (FlowerSong Press, 2024) and Edgecliff (FlowerSong Press, 2021), and the children’s book Waiting for Luna (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015). Her poetry has been published in venues including Diálogo, Split This Rock, Out of Anonymity, Angels Flight Literary West, Every Other, Cockpit Revue Paris, and Acentos Review.

Sáenz is a UCLA Writing Project fellow, an alumna of the VONA/Voices Workshop, and a Macondo Writers Workshop fellow. Her latest collaboration, Escaramuza: The Poetics of Home, created with ire’ne lara silva and Constance Jaeggi, has been exhibited at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 2024, Sáenz was selected as a finalist for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Olympiad, where she presented her new work at a public live-streaming event at the Los Angeles Central Library on September 7, 2024. As a finalist, she performed her new sports poem multiple times over the next three years and will receive additional poetry commissions and presentation opportunities leading up to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.

Sáenz is working on her third poetry collection and an academic paper focused on global citizenship curriculum for elementary schools.