ESSAYS

DIMINUTIVES

Four Way Review

2025 Best Spiritual Literature Award in Nonfiction — FINALIST

REPURPOSED BUILDING

Image Journal, Issue 127

2024 Best Spiritual Literature Award in Nonfiction — FINALIST

GOOD NEIGHBOR

The Los Angeles Review

WILSON AVENUE WATER CRIB

Great Lakes Review

POETRY

THE NIGHT AFTER TRUMP ANNOUNCES AN END TO OPERATION MIDWAY BLITZ, THE AURORA BOREALIS SINGS OVER CHICAGO

&

BEFORE MY FATHER DRIVES US INTO THE AFTERLIFE, THE THREE OF US HAVE BREAKFAST IN THE DUNKIN DONUTS PARKING LOT

Poetry Northwest (forthcoming)

DEATH WHISTLE

SAND Journal, Issue 29

2023 CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest — SHORTLIST

2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize — LONGLIST

HYPERNORMALIZATION

Consequence, Volume 18.1

UTTER ANIMAL

Waxwing, Issue 35

RESTRAINT

Watershed Review

HYMN FOR THE BROKEDOWN

like a field, Spring 2026

SILVER AND GOLD

Volume

QUE SEA CIGÜEÑA, OR 😂 😂 🌊

ANMLY

“This year’s entries reflected a pronounced interest in climate issues and contemporary geopolitics, with a number of poems touching on recent floods and bushfires, species extinction, and the war in Ukraine… refracted through their expression in language, including philology and etymology, and the power of listing, cataloguing, and naming.”

Judges for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize — Longlisted

Gabriela Valencia Author

OTHER WORK & RECOGNITIONS

Poetry Manuscript Reader - Prairie Schooner Raz/Shumaker Book Prize (2026-Present)

Co-Instructor - The Art of Practice - University of Nebraska at Kearney (2025)

Poetry Screener for the Kate Sommer Memorial Prize (2025-Present)

Teaching Artist for Nebraska Writers Collective (2025-Present)

Tin House Workshop Alum (Autumn 2024)

Manuscript Screener for the Alice James Book Award (2023-2025)

RECIPIENT of the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry (2022)

Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Creative Writing - Boston University (2022)

FINALIST in the San Miguel Writer’s Conference Writing Contest (2022)

FINALIST in the Bermuda Triangle Prize (2022)