GIOVANNAI ROSA IS A WRITER AND ARTIST FROM MIAMI
What to call the thing that happened to me and all who look like me?
Should I call it history?
—Jamaica Kincaid
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Work
“the first governor of puerto rico was american…” /// Passages North (2023 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize)
“a force is a push or a pull” /// The Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)
“in the country coming to an end” /// Muzzle
“i work just 2 hours a day…” /// Apogee
Ghosts /// Oxford American
sweetness /// 2023 Periplus Anthology: Call & Response
memory work /// The Offing
haibun for ma’s music /// Bat City Review
untitled sugar poem /// Ploughshares (2022 Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner)
My Mother, an Ouroboros /// Catapult
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Development
2023-2024 /// Assistant Editor, The Hopkins Review
2023-2025 /// The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University
2023-2024 /// Tin House Reading Fellow
2023 /// Tin House Scholar
2022 /// Periplus Fellow w/ Kiese Laymon
2021 /// Writing Trauma Workshop w/ Roxane Gay
2020 /// Miami Writers Institute w/ Bryan Washington
2020 /// Tin House Winter Workshop w/ Namwali Serpell