Ivelisse Rodriguez

Ivelisse Rodriguez is a writer who has contributed fiction to Kweli Journal, including 'La Hija de Changó' and 'The Belindas.' She has also interviewed writers such as Patricia Engel and Jose B. Gonzalez for the journal. Her story 'La Hija de Chango' appears in the 2025 Kweli anthology Sing the Truth. She is listed as an English faculty member at DePauw University. Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts, she holds degrees from Columbia, Emerson College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.