Mercedes Rodriguez is a poet and educator from Los Angeles, CA.

Winner of The Georgia Review’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, their work appears in New England review, Washington Square Review, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, like a field, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere.

Their work has received support from bread loaf, millay arts, the stadler center for poetry & Literary Arts, and the Charleston Literary Festival’s cato fellowship prize.

They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University and serve as program associate for the bucknell seminar for undergraduate poets.