Gabriela Valencia is an American poet and writer. Her honors include a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry and finalist recognitions from the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest. Her work appears in Volume, Watershed Review, Great Lakes Review, and elsewhere.

Born in Chicago and raised in a Mexican immigrant family in the greater Chicagoland area, Valencia graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a BA in English and Chemistry, subsequently co-authoring neuroscience research in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; and Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. She received her MFA in Poetry from Boston University.

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