Cecilia Martinez-Gil is the author of Psaltery and Serpentines, a Book of Poems, published by Gival Press (October 2010). This book was also a finalist for the 2010 ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award for Poetry, finalist in the USA National Best Books Award for Poetry-2010 and Runner-Up for the 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival Poetry Award. A chapbook version of Psaltery and Serpentines was also winner of Finishing Line Press 2010 poetry award. A graduate of USC with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Cecilia Martínez-Gil has an M.A in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Loyola Marymount University. During her tenure at UCLA she taught Spanish, and at LMU she taught English and Intro to Poetry, as a teacher associate and as teaching fellow respectively. She has taught Spanish and Philosophy, Creative Writing Workshops and Seminars for Middle and High School students. Cecilia is Adjunct Professor of the English Department at Santa Monica College where she teaches English Composition, English Literature and Latin American Literatures in translation. Her poems have been published in Voices, A Santa Monica Women's College Publication, Anthology of Latin American Writers in Los Angeles, Imaginarias: Antología de Poesía (Ediciones de la Crítica, Montevideo, Uruguay), and in her first chapbook Muecas de Fósforo (Ediciones Caballo de Fuego, Montevideo, Uruguay 1987). Her work as a journalist/writer (articles, interviews, reviews and critiques) has been published on several Uruguayan newspapers and magazines (1987-1989). She also co-wrote and played the lead character in the award-winning (SODRE) experimental Video Arte Poesía Itinerarios directed by Roberto Mascaró (CEMA 1988). Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, Cecilia traveled extensively for South America, Europe and the Caribbean. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, Federico Ramos, a composer and guitarist, and their daughter Magaluna, an emergent singer/songwriter.