Odilia Galvan Rodriguez

Odilia Galván Rodríguez - eco-poet, activist, writer, and editor, is the author of four volumes of poetry, her latest, Red Earth Calling: ~cantos for the 21st Century~. She’s worked as an editor for Matrix Women's News Magazine, Community Mural's Magazine, and most recently at Tricontinental Magazine in Havana, Cuba. She facilitates creative writing workshops nationally and is a moderator of Poets Responding to SB 1070, and Love and Prayers for Fukushima, both Facebook pages dedicated to bringing attention to social justice issues that affect the lives and wellbeing of many people. She has two books forthcoming one entitled, The Nature of Things, by Merced College, and the other as co-editor of the anthology, Poetry of Resistance: A Multicultural Anthology in Response to Arizona SB 1070, to be published by the University of Arizona Press in 2015.Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, and literary journals on and offline. You can find some of her poetry below.