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Nina C. Peláez

@ninacpelaez.bsky.social

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Poet. Plant lover. Educator. Associate Director of The Merwin Conservancy, home & garden of poet W.S. Merwin. Maui, HI.

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Announcing our nominations for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award! Dorsey Craft @dorseycraft.bsky.social Maja Lukic @majalukic.bsky.social Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social Jeddie Sophronius Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social

Shō Poetry Journal's nominees for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award. Three different Sho Poetry Journal covers in a vertical column on the left. Listed in a wider column on the right are the nominees with circle-cut author photos, poet names, and poem titles.

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Our 2024 literary award winners list, continued: winners of Glenna Luschei Awards include @khilfish.bsky.social, @ninacpelaez.bsky.social, and @nadeemzaman.bsky.social. Read more on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

The Schooner Annual Award Winners

First Place Glenna Luschei
Prairie Schooner Award
$1500
iheoma uzomba, three poems, Fall 2024

Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards
$250
Gabriel Houck, "Signal/Noise," Fall 2024
Emily Khilfeh, "Poem with Genocide in the Title," Summer 2024
Divya Mehrish, "The Opposite of Tragedy," Fall 2024
Nina C. Peláez, "Still Life," Fall 2024
Nadeem Zaman, "Special Registration," Winter

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

New poem online! “Doubt” by Nina C. Peláez (@ninacpelaez.bsky.social) is forthcoming in our summer issue, Shō No. 7, and was selected by the editors as the runner-up for the Sita Martin Prize. Read the poem (with audio by the poet) here: shopoetryjournal.com/doubt-nina-c...

Light beige background. Sliver of a dark night image at the top, a ghostly night forest scene: a girl in a long white dress and a bird head mask sits on a bough. Beige text reads: Read a Poem Summer 2025. Main text reads: "from ‘Doubt' At the cattle farm, I fell in love with a boy / who thought he was a god. I too, believed / this sometimes. – Nina C. Peláez, Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up." Small circle-cut black and white photograph of a woman with short hair wearing a dress.

I started working on this piece over 15 years ago, while staying at a friend's family farm one summer, and it has moved through many, many iterations. It was first fragments, then a series of short poems, and at one point, a short story that I abandoned when a teacher's response was "the writing is beautiful, but stories are about people in trouble." Yet, something kept pulling me back to these memories time and again. It took me this long to come to see what I was really writing about, to see the shadows that had been sitting in the periphery of that landscape all along.

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Congratulations to Nina C. Peláez, runner-up of the Sita Martin Prize for her poem “Doubt,” forthcoming in Shō No. 7 (Summer 2025): tinyurl.com/shono7 Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social is a poet, essayist and educator based in Maui, HI where she works as Associate Director for The Merwin

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Text reads: Sita Martin Prize Runner-up • Nina C. Peláez “Doubt”

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

“The sun starts its strain, rupturing through clouds, melting dusts of snow. My shadow appears and disappears in front of me.” —excerpt from “Derelict” by Nina Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social

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Derelict | Narrative Magazine

Derelict by Nina Peláez — It is after the long night ends with its glit...

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Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It means so so much to know that others are reading and sharing my work. I feel extraordinarily grateful. Thank you so much @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and for all of you taking the time to read these words.

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Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thank you so much for sharing this! It means so much ❤️

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