heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (she/her) is a queer, brown/Colombian, poet, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. Her poetry collection, The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) won the 2018 Letras Latinas Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She is currently a Spring 2021 Mellon Arts and Practitioners Fellow with Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. A 2021 Radar Productions Fellow, a 2019 CantoMundo Fellow, and 2018 VONA alum, her poetry has been published in Poetry, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Split This Rock’s Quarry, Nat.Brut, and Foglifter, among other places. Born in Arizona, and raised in California, she currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.