Mercedes Rodriguez is a poet and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Winner of The Georgia Review’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, their work appears or is forthcoming in New England Review, Washington Square Review, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University and serve as Program Associate for the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets.

Contributions: Two poems [Fall 2025]