heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (they/them) is a queer, nb/trans, crip/disabled, brown/Colombian, writer, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. They are author of the poetry collection, The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) and the chapbook, Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024). They are a 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, a VONA Alum, and have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar, 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, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They currently live in California.

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