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Felipe Bomeny
2025 Fiction Fellow / Iguanaland: Stories
FELIPE BOMENY was born in São Paulo, and grew up in South Florida. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and he holds an MFA in fiction from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas, Austin. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Waybill, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories set in Florida, as well as a novel set in Paraguay.
Simone Zapata
2025 Poetry Fellow / Voices Under Water
SIMONE ZAPATA is a queer writer, editor, and educator from San José, California. Her recent work appears in Dilettante Army, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Brink Literary Journal, where she served as the inaugural Emerging Writer Fellow in Hybrid Writing. Zapata’s manuscript-in-progress leverages methods of documentary poetics, divination, and polyvocality to interrogate the language of the medical industrial complex and the embodiment of its grammar. She’s received scholarships and fellowships from Community of Writers, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Banff Centre, and California Institute of the Arts, where she earned an MFA in creative writing.
Flint
2025 Nonfiction Fellow / Blood
FLINT is a queer writer with a keen interest in hybridity, generative genre tampering, and upsetting the applecart of heteronormative discourse about sexuality – particularly in terms of identity, agency, desire, and violence. A 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction, Flint earned an MFA in writing from the School of Critical Studies at CalArts, and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, Arts & Letters (Unclassifiable Contest winner), Staging Social Justice, CutBank, Erotic Review, and Monosyllabic Queer Theory, among numerous other publications and anthologies. Flint was born in Miami and adopted into a Canadian family as an infant. She recently reunited with her birth mother in rural Pennsylvania.
The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships program is supported by The Jorge M. Peréz Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation, the Green Family Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Tristarr LLC, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Department of State Division of Arts and Culture.
