Kristin Naca
{{short description|Latina and Fillipina American poet}}
Kristin Naca (born Washington, D.C.) is a Latina and Fillipina American poet.
Life and education
Naca grew up in northern Virginia.{{Cite web |url=http://www.giststreet.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=50 |title=Gist Street Reading Series - October 2, 2009: Irina Reyn (Fiction) / Kristin Naca (Poetry) |access-date=2009-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918193752/http://giststreet.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=50 |archive-date=2009-09-18 |url-status=dead }}
She has a B.A. from the University of Washington, an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh,{{Cite web |url=http://www.english.pitt.edu/graduate/mfa/graduateBooks.html |title=Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh |access-date=2009-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429112417/http://www.english.pitt.edu/graduate/mfa/graduateBooks.html |archive-date=2009-04-29 |url-status=dead }} and a Ph.D. in English from University of Nebraska.{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/kristin-naca|title=Kristin Naca|work=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=18 December 2016}}
Her poems have appeared in Poetry,{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69711/eating-lorca|title=Eating Lorca by Kristin Naca|first=Poetry|last=Magazine|date=November 5, 2019|website=Poetry Foundation}} ART PAPERS{{cite web|last1=Iyawo|title=Life Altars|url=http://www.artpapers.org/feature_articles/2015_0304-lifealtars.html}} Bloom, Harpur Palate,{{Cite web |url=http://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/hpvol71.html |title=Harpur Palate |access-date=2009-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616131557/http://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/hpvol71.html |archive-date=2010-06-16 |url-status=dead }} Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner,{{Cite web |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv083%2F83.1.naca.html |title=Project MUSE - Login |access-date=2020-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182231/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv083%2F83.1.naca.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }} Octopus Magazine,{{cite web|url=https://www.octopusmagazine.com/|title=Supplementi per te|website=Octopus Magazine}} Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rio Grande Review.
Naca is a member of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.
She served as Writer In Residence with Minnesota Prison Writing Workshops.{{cite web|url=https://mnprisonwriting.org/|title=Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop|website=MPWW}} She lives in Minneapolis.
Firing and subsequent lawsuit against Macalester College
In 2015, Naca was fired from her position as an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Macalester College due to alleged sexual misconduct reported by a former student.{{cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2017/10/11/attorney-for-fired-macalester-professor-may-have-to-testify-about-her-own-harassment-claims/|title=Attorney for fired Macalester professor may have to testify about her own harassment claims|date=2017-10-12|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-06}}{{cite web|url=https://minnlawyer.com/2016/10/07/purple-prose-in-poets-prolix-lawsuit-irks-judge/|title='Purple prose' in poet's prolix lawsuit irks judge – Minnesota Lawyer|last=Mosedale|first=Mike|date=7 October 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-06}}{{cite web|url=https://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/50425/under-siege-on-social-media-choose-words-carefully-when-responding|title=Under siege on social media? Choose words carefully when responding|last=Specialist|first=The HR|date=2018-01-04|website=Business Management Daily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-06}} Naca sued Macalester in 2016, arguing that her firing was for discriminatory reasons, due to a disability and her status as a woman, a lesbian, a Filipina and Puerto Rican, and a Santeria priestess.{{cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2018/09/25/judge-oks-macalesters-firing-of-professor-who-had-sex-with-student-attorney-scolded/|title=Judge OKs Macalester's firing of professor who had sex with student; attorney scolded|date=2018-09-25|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-06}}{{cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-mnd-0_16-cv-03263/pdf/USCOURTS-mnd-0_16-cv-03263-3.pdf|title=Kristin Naca vs Macalester College|date=2018-09-20|website=United States District Court of Minnesota}} In 2018, the judge in the case cleared Macalester of wrongdoing in the dismissal.{{cite web|url=https://themacweekly.com/2018/09/naca-suit-dismissed-appeal-forthcoming/|title=Naca suit dismissed, appeal forthcoming|last=Asher|first=Rebecca Edwards and Abe|date=2018-09-27|website=The Mac Weekly|accessdate=2019-03-06}} On January 16, 2020, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit, holding that "[e]ven assuming Naca made a prima facie case, this court concludes, on de novo review, that Macalester articulates a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for termination—her sexual relationship with Doe—that Naca does not counter with sufficient evidence of pretext".{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14871290662617818152&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr|title=NACA v. MACALESTER COLLEGE, Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit 2020 - Google Scholar|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2020-01-30}}
Awards
- mtvU National Poetry Series Prize. selected by Yusef Komunyakaa{{cite web|url=https://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/poetry-reading-randall-mann-kristin-naca-and-debbie-yee-at-sfpl-071109/|title=Protected Blog › Log in|website=bjanepr.wordpress.com}}
- 2008 National Poetry Series
- Lannan Residency Fellowship
- Bread Loaf Fellowship
- Hedgebrook women writers in residence program on Whidbey Island{{Cite web |url=http://www.ravenchronicles.org/raven/rvback/issues/0397/cont0397.htm |title=Contributors to the Power of Language |access-date=2009-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609025818/http://ravenchronicles.org/raven/rvback/issues/0397/cont0397.htm |archive-date=2009-06-09 |url-status=dead }}
Works
- [http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/2008/08/kristin-naca-you-go-girl.html "Baptism", The Blind Chatelaine's Keys]
- {{cite journal| url=http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/spring09/knaca.html| title=One Foot| journal=Prairie Schooner| date=Spring 2009| access-date=2009-08-19| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612010757/http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/spring09/knaca.html| archive-date=2010-06-12| url-status=dead}}
- {{cite book | title=Bird Eating Bird | publisher=HarperCollins | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-06-178234-3 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780061782343 }}, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in 2010
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