Iliana Rocha Explained
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.[1]
Iliana Rocha's work has been featured in Best American Poetry[2] online, as well as the Nation,[3] VQR,[4] Blackbird,[5] and Waxwing.[6]
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.[7] Rocha earned a PhD in English and creative writing at Western Michigan University.[8]
Rocha is currently assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.[9]
Publications
Karankawa, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.[10]
References
- Web site: AWP: Award Series Winners. www.awpwriter.org. 2018-09-29.
- Web site: Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Iliana Rocha - The Best American Poetry. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com. 2018-09-29.
- News: Iliana Rocha. 2017-09-26. The Nation. 2018-09-29. en-US.
- Web site: Iliana Rocha VQR Online. www.vqronline.org. en. 2018-09-29.
- Web site: Iliana Rocha Blackbird v12n2 #poetry. blackbird.vcu.edu. 2018-09-29.
- Web site: The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness Iliana Rocha. waxwingmag.org. 2018-09-29.
- Web site: Iliana Rocha. 2018-09-29. Poetry Foundation. en-us. Poetry Foundation. 2018-09-29.
- Web site: Iliana Rocha Blackbird v12n2 #poetry. blackbird.vcu.edu. 2018-09-29.
- Web site: Iliana Rocha. 2018-09-29. Poetry Foundation. en-us. Poetry Foundation. 2018-09-29.
- Book: ROCHA, ILIANA. j.ctt16f987f. Karankawa. 2015. University of Pittsburgh Press. 10.2307/j.ctt16f987f . 9780822963844.
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