Iliana Rocha

Iliana Rocha is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry for her newest collection, The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez, available from Tupelo Press. Karankawa, her debut, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets anthology, as well as The New York Times, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, among others, and she serves as Poetry Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal. An Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo are the loves of her life.