Mercedes Rodriguez

Mercedes Rodriguez is a poet and educator from Los Angeles. Their work appears in New England Review, Washington Square Review, MQR Mixtape, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Their work has received support from Bread Loaf, Millay Arts, the Stadler Center for Poetry and 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.

Mercedes Rodriguez

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Diabetes [winner]

My Daddy dies and I immediately launch a cake into the firmament, but not before taking a big bite. The person filming Daddy’s funeral flips their phone sideways and jokes […]

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