Claudia Rojas

Salvadoran-American creative

Welcome

Claudia is a contributor to Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora. This book is an Undocupoets project to anthologize un/documented poets. Order online from HarperCollins.

Finding Here to Stay at a DC bookstore in September 2024

Events

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  • October 2023 Latino Book Festival hosted by DC Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs
  • June 2025 Virtual reading with fellow Undocupoets. Recording available on NJPAC YouTube.

Honors

2023 Fairfax County Public Library Poetic Musings Contest Winner in ode category, “To Life with Foster Cats”

2021 Carolina Rojas-Bahr Outstanding Latina Graduate Award from the University of Maryland

Writer’s Relief Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Creative Writers
2019, Poetry Winner

Southwest Review Morton Marr Poetry Prize
2018, Second Place Award for “Throwing Rice”