Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is mixed-race, second-generation Colombian immigrant, writer, scholar, artist, and political activist. She seeks to bear witness to forms of political and historical violence, with the aim of using poetry and prose to mourn what has been lost, and to provoke social change. Her creative writing has seen or is forthcoming in places such as The Progressive, Mobius: A Journal for Social Change, Yellow Medicine Review, Descant, and others. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
