Gabriela Valencia is a poet and essayist.

Her work appears or is forthcoming in Image Journal, The Los Angeles Review, Watershed Review, Volume, and Great Lakes Review among others. A Tin House Alum and Robert Pinsky Global Fellow, her work has been longlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and was named finalist for the CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest and Orison’s Best Spiritual Literature Award in Nonfiction.

A proud daughter of Mexican immigrants to the Chicagoland area, her literary interests include diaspora in the American Midwest; ecopoetics; speech, semiotics, and (mis)translation; anticipatory grief; and the ordinary divine. She received her MFA in Poetry from Boston University in 2022.

She lives in Nebraska with her husband Josh and their two herding dogs, Rainer and Zola.