Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes

Poet

Author's Bio

 

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are author of The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024), Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2025) and Ampersand Organ: a more-than-human lyric (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming in 2026). They are a professor of feminist, queer, and disability studies; poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal; and editor/curator of the Anomalous Press column, Wild-Wired: Neuroqueer and Neurodivergent Poetics. A VONA Alum, and 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, they have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar Productions, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in American Poetry Review, The Normal School, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alocasia, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They live in unceded Acjachemen and Tongva lands, otherwise known as southern California.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Pariahs Anthology (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016)
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Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Abuse and Oppression of Women (Kasva Press, 2016)
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We Will Be Shelter (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014)
Book:
The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Journals:
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Adrienne
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As/Us
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Connotation Press
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COUNTERCLOCK
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Crab Fat Magazine
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Descant
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Heavy Feather Review
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Huizache
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Pank
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Poetry Magazine
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Scintilla Magazine
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Wilde Magazine
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Word Riot
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Prizes won: 

2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize, EcoTheo Collective

2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Letras Latinas

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Disabled, Latino/Latina/Latinx, Queer
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Children, LGBTQ, Seniors, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona
Raised in: 
San Juan Capistrano, CA
California
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Last update: Apr 15, 2025