Valeria Rodrigo Rojas is a lesbian writer and translator from Valencia, Venezuela based in Brooklyn. She has been featured or is forthcoming in Foglifter, Hayden Ferry’s Review, The Columbia Review, ANMLY, Huizache, and others. She is a Fall 2025 Brooklyn Poets Fellow. She misses the smell of the sea and so reaches towards her chronic pain to take her back.

Contributions: Ekphrastic for My Mother’s Mugshot [Spring 2026]