Santa Tarantula (University of Notre Dame Press) by Jordan Pérez, is the winner of the tenth Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Anchoring themselves in Cuban history and identity, the poems range from covering minorities abuse in Camagüey’s forced labour camps of the 1960s, to women striving to live fearlessly in the aftermath of sexual assault. Tracking systemic violence, Pérez’s poems focus on the patterns of generational unwellness governing families and communities. This debut combines coming-of-age narratives with historical significance.