{"product_id":"sweet-geometry","title":"Sweet Geometry","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeslie Contreras Schwartz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a multi-genre writer, a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, the 2019–2021 Houston Poet Laureate, and the author of the 2022 C\u0026amp;R Press Nonfiction Prize winner \u003ci\u003eFrom the Womb of Sky and Earth,\u003c\/i\u003e a lyrical memoir. Her five collections of poetry include: \u003ci\u003eBlack Dove\/Paloma Negra \u003c\/i\u003e(FlowerSong Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters; and \u003ci\u003eNightbloom \u0026amp; Cenote \u003c\/i\u003e(St. Julian Press, 2018),\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea semi-finalist for the 2017 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHer work appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI, EPOCH, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, [PANK], Verse Daily, Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHouston Noir\u003c\/i\u003e (Akashic Books), and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Small Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e anthology, among others. Recent work is featured with the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. She has collaborated on or been commissioned for poetic projects with the City of Houston, the Houston Grand Opera, and The Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eContreras Schwartz is a poetry and nonfiction faculty member at Alma College’s low-residency MFA program in creative writing and has taught creative nonfiction and poetry work-shops at Rice University and Stanford Continuing Studies. Contreras Schwartz is a Jewish writer born in Houston, Texas, with Mexican American and Mexican roots that extend back several generations in Houston and Texas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 112 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (May 21, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso available on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0H3WHRRBB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eKindle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53530679541944,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/lschwartz_front.jpg?v=1780182622","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/sweet-geometry","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}