Amelia Rodriguez

Amelia Rodriguez is a lesbian writer from the Coachella Valley in California and an associate editor at San Diego Magazine, where she covers art, culture, and obscure women's sports. She received the San Diego Press Club's Rising Star Journalist Award in 2023. Her poetry won the Alta California Chapbook Prize from Gunpowder Press, and the resulting chapbook, The First Amelia, was published in a bilingual edition.