Roda Avelar

Roda Avelar (she/they) is a trans woman poet from Fresno, California. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of California Riverside, where she taught creative writing and English composition, and a BA in English literature from California State University Fresno. She was a Milkweed Editions summer intern in 2019. Avelar is the winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and was a 2022 Community of Writers fellow. Her poetry can be found in The Acentos Review; SPORAZINE; ANMLY; About Place Journal; Poetry magazine; Pleiades; and Flies, Cockroaches & Poets. She creates work that imagines queer people and people of color in science fiction, mythology, and queer liberation.