Iliana Rocha is an American poet and writer from Texas. Her debut collection, Karankawa (2015), won an AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a Society of Midland Authors Award.
Iliana Rocha's work has been featured in Best American Poetry online, as well as the Nation, VQR, Blackbird, and Waxwing.
Career
Rocha earned her MFA in poetry from Arizona State University, where she was poetry editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. She taught composition and rhetoric at Arizona State and developmental writing at South Mountain Community College. Rocha earned a PhD in English and creative writing at Western Michigan University.
Rocha is currently assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Publications
Karankawa, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
References
External links
Iliana Rocha profile at The Poetry Foundation
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American poets Arizona State University alumni Western Michigan University alumni University of Central Oklahoma faculty