caitlin f. villacrusis: poet
Caitlin Villacrusis is a Filipina writer interested in media and poetics. She is a prose editor at SUNHOUSE Literary and a three-time panelist at Miami Book Fair.She writes about pop culture, media, and life at cat’s cafe, her Substack. Her creative work has been recognized by Gigantic Sequins and Frontier Poetry and is published in The Margins, HAD, South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), and more.She is from Florida. Reach her via email.
poems
"No Hitchhikers on Florida Highways," The Margins
"OUROBOROS I" and "OUROBOROS II," Bullshit Lit
"child, re-imagined as roasted crab," Paper Crane Journal's Outstanding Young Poets Anthology (reprint)
"Palm Beach Barbie, 2001," The Dawn Review
"CATALINA" and more, Bullshit Lit
“3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19104,” South Florida Poetry Journal
"swamphouse, drowning" and "the yellow journalist (and little boy)," The Lumiere Review
"In 2016, a child wanted to build a sandcastle on a Disney Resort beach," COUNTERCLOCK Journal
"child, re-imagined as roasted crab" and "unreliable narrator & her pet guinea pig," Sophon Lit
"nighttime routine for the seasonally-depressed," Gigantic Sequins
prose
awards
six Gold Keys, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2024
ten Silver Keys, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2024
seven Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2024
finalist, Frontier Poetry Roots & Roads Prize
finalist, Gigantic Sequins' 12th Annual Flash Fiction Contest
Gold Key, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2023
Silver Key, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2023
two Scholastic Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2023
feature, Teen Sequins contest under Gigantic Sequins
appearances & positions
prose editor, SUNHOUSE Literary, 2024 to present
poetry editor, The Lunar Journal, 2023 to present
poetry editor, Hot Pot Magazine, 2023 to present
performer, Dreyfoos School of the Arts "Figure of Speech" showcase, 2024
poetry editor, Hominum Journal, 2023 to 2024
South Florida youth poet ambassador, Bluapple Poetry Network under Jason Taylor Foundation, 2023 to 2024
submissions editor, Seeds in the Black Earth Literary & Arts Magazine, 2023 to 2024
student ambassador, "Speak Up" program at Miami Book Fair, 2022 to 2024
co-teacher & mentor, Fine Arts Mentorship, 2022 to 2024
moderator for Saturn Browne and Evan Wang, Miami Book Fair, 2023
moderator for Rudy Francisco, Miami Book Fair, 2023
performer, Dreyfoos School of the Arts "Figure of Speech" showcase, 2023
creative nonfiction literary apprentice, BreakBread Literacy Project, 2022 to 2023
moderator for Lissette Lendeborg and Ariel Francisco, Miami Book Fair, 2022
workshops
Miami Book Fair "Speak Up" Workshop under Leslie Sainz, 2024
Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship under Tola Sylvan, 2023
Kelly Writers House Creative Nonfiction Workshop under Jamie-Lee Josselyn at University of Pennsylvania, 2023
Kenyon Review Young Writers Residential Workshop (creative writing under Chukwuma Ndulue & pop culture criticism under Gyasi Hall), summer 2023
Iowa Young Writers Studio Online under Jane Huffman, 2023
Kenyon Review Young Writers Online Workshops under Matthew Kelsey, winter 2022
Miami Book Fair "Speak Up" Workshop under Joshua Nguyen, 2022
Miami Book Fair "Speak Up" Mentorship under Jason Bayani, 2022
Ellipsis Writing Workshops under Steven Espada Dawson, 2022
Kenyon Review Young Writers Online Workshops under W. David Hall, winter 2021
