Yael Valencia Aldana

Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the chapbook, Alien(s) (Bottlecap Press) and the forthcoming poetry collection, Black Mestiza (University Press of Kentucky, 2025). She is the winner of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series Prize 2023, a finalist in the AWP Kurt Brown Scholarship, a semi-finalist for the Two Sylvia Press Wilder Poetry Prize, and Long Listed for the Erbacce Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Stone Coast Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Cutbank Literary Journal, among others. She is an Associate Editor at West Trade Review and teaches creative writing at FIU.