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Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
CA
California US
Email: 
heidiarhodes@gmail.com
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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona
Raised in: 
San Juan Capistrano, CA
California
Website: 
https://www.instagram.com/vessels.we.are… [2]
Prizes won: 

2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize, EcoTheo Collective

2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Letras Latinas

 

Identifies as: 
Disabled
Latino/Latina/Latinx
Queer
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Children
LGBTQ
Seniors
Teachers
Teenagers
Veterans

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/heidi_andrea_restrepo_rhodes [2] https://www.instagram.com/vessels.we.are/