Leticia Priebe Rocha (she/her) is a poet, visual artist, and editor. She is the author of In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Leticia earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she immigrated to Miami, FL at the age of 9 and currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work has been published in Salamander, Rattle, Pigeon Pages, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. Leticia is also a Reader for Yellow Arrow Journal and served as Guest Editor for their EMBLAZON issue.
Aside from living and breathing poetry, Leticia is enthusiastic about collaging, museums, the writing community at MassPoetry and GrubStreet, Bojack Horseman, (very) amateur archery, The Sopranos, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, rom-coms (esp anything with Julia Roberts in it), the cowboy emoji, Mitski, and the moon, of course. She has attempted to photograph the moon at least a thousand times and the moon always refuses to be captured as anything but an Orb of Light. Leticia is a Taurus sun, Cancer moon, and Aquarius rising.
Read Yellow Arrow Publishing's March "Her View Friday," which features Leticia's chapbook, In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press 2024).
Leticia sat down with the Tufts Daily to talk about her debut poetry chapbook, In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press 2024). Read the article by Urvija Mafatlal here.
Read Leticia's blog post for Yellow Arrow Journal where she reflects on her time as Guest Editor for the EMBLAZON issue.
Read Leticia's blog post for Yellow Arrow Journal announcing that she will be guest editor for their next issue.
Read Leticia's responses for the March 2023 "Writers on Writing" Series from Yellow Arrow Journal here.
Leticia's interview with MassPoetry in preparation for their March 2023 U35 Reading.
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