About the Author

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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, 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 is passionate about fostering the arts in her community and is a member of the Medford Arts Council.