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 2024 Tin House Alum, her writing was named finalist for the 2024 Orison Books Best Spiritual Literature Award in Nonfiction and the 2023 CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest as well as longlisted for the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.

A proud daughter of mestizo 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, where she was named a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow.

She lives in Nebraska with her husband Josh and their two herding dogs, Rainer and Zola, where she is at work on her first book.