Illiana Rocha

Iliana Rocha is the author of Karankawa, which won the AWP Donald J. Hall Prize from University of Pittsburgh Press in 2014, and the documentary poetry book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez, which won the Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Pressin 2019. She earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan, and her areas of specialty are Chicanx and Latinx poetics, critical race theory, and queer and feminist rhetoric. Her works has appeared in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, RHINO, Blackbird, and West Branch, among others, and she serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal. Iliana is originally from south Texas and currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.