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Adriana Beltrano, MFA ’26, Named a Jake Adam York Prize Finalist

Poet Adriana Beltrano, MFA '26. The poet stands in front of a bay of water in sunlight.

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Adriana Beltrano, MFA ’26, has been named a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize for her manuscript Heaven Then Information. Read the press release here.

The Jake Adam York Prize for a first or second poetry collection is a collaboration between Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions.

Adriana Beltrano is a poet from Jupiter, Florida. She is an assistant editor of The Hopkins Review and a reader for Only Poems. Her work has been supported by the 2024 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is forthcoming in the South Carolina Review and Pinhole Poetry.