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 is passionate about fostering the arts in her community and is a new member of the Medford Arts Council.
Learn more about Leticia, her writing practice, and her chapbook through MassPoetry's "Getting to Know" series.
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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